[plug] local DoS with ping -R

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Mon Dec 13 12:17:38 WST 1999


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.



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