[plug] local DoS with ping -R

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Christian wrote:

> Are you running a 2.0 kernel?  The bug only seems to apply to these
> kernels (as per Matt's original forward from BUGTRAQ) and if you're
> running Red Hat 6.x then you'll have a 2.2 I believe...

I'm running 2.2.13 ... this means that I can't taken down by a malicious user.
I can still however if I want to take down a 2.0.X host.  The discussion of
ping -s, deian/Redhat is secondary to the kernel issue.

Yours Tony.