From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 26 23:48:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14004 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 23:48:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.actrix.gen.nz (root@mail.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13868 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 23:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by mail.actrix.gen.nz (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA28188; Wed, 27 May 1998 18:47:10 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: andrew@192.168.1.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:49:45 +1200 To: "J.A. Terranson" , "'FreeBSD Security'" From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) Subject: RE: Possible DoS opportunity via ping implementation error? Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 5:57 PM 27/5/98, J.A. Terranson wrote: >I am running fairly plain-jane FBSD 2.2.5 from FTP.FREEBSD.ORG... > >CERT is *wrong* > >J.A. Terranson >sysadmin@mfn.org Now confirmed here also pining from my mac, which has the same problem. CERT and BugTRAQ should be notified. Not sure if this should wait for a patch to be issued. Andrew. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Andrew McNaughton = ++64 4 389 6891 Any sufficiently advanced = andrew@squiz.co.nz bug is indistinguishable = http://www.newsroom.co from a feature. = -- Rich Kulawiec = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message