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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:40:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Hovey  <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Land DOS Attack.
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 jbutt@subcellar.mwci.net wrote:
> 
> > 	Does anyone here know for sure it 2.2.2-RELEASE is vulnrable to the 
> > land.c DOS attack? It so is there a patch?
> 
> I believe so.  In any case a "quick fix hack" has been committed to
> -CURRENT and -STABLE.  A security advisory should follow shortly.

I couldnt get that land.c jobber to crash anything.