Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:43:18 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com Subject: Re: Is this Ping of Death for real? Message-ID: <m0vWRiZ-0008taC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <199612071823.KAA03430@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Dec 7, 96 10:23:47 am
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> Due to an interesting combination of bugs, no version of FreeBSD 2.x is > vulnerable to this attack. The bugs are fixed in FreeBSD 2.2 and 3.0 > and they're still not vulnerable =) I beg to differ. One ping won't do it, but I set up a "ping -c 10000" and let it run for a while, and FreeBSD 2.<mumble, a system at work> started rebooting every 5 minutes or so. -- Alan Batie ______ batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Assimilate this! +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Worf, First Contact DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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