Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:33:34 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu> To: andyo@prime.net.ua (Andy V. Oleynik) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail up to 8.9.2 vulnerability Message-ID: <199904141633.KAA17779@lal.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <3714B71B.5420EB1F@prime.net.ua> from "Andy V. Oleynik" at Apr 14, 99 06:41:17 pm
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Lo and behold, Andy V. Oleynik once said: > > Hi, everybody, > recently I've read about subj (src: http://www.rootshell.com/beta), > got a simple c-program to test my sendmail. > I'm running a test now, but what I would ask: > bugdiscoverer writes following in his msg: > " > If you noticed increased LA during attack, > your machine is vulnerable. > " > What does he mean under "LA"? > And may be some of U has appropriate patch for subj? Load average. It's a denial of service attack; the exploit you downloaded is designed to be somewhat nice, and simply slow the machine down by a small amount. It's not all that exciting. Still, there's no harm in upgrading. :-) -Dave -- work: danderse@cs.utah.edu me: angio@pobox.com University of Utah http://www.angio.net/ Computer Science - Flux Research Group "What's footnote FIVE?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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