[plug] local DoS with ping -R

[John Summerfield]

> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Christian wrote:
> > 
> > > How do people ping flood others using /bin/ping unless they have root
> > > access? (in which case not being setuid doesn't help.)  There was a bug
> > > with the signal handling which allowed an effective ping flood but hasn't
> > > this been fixed?
> > 
> > You can flood somebody's link quite effectively by using
> > "ping -s <some really big number> <their IP address>"

I think that's new.

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