[plug] local DoS with ping -R

[Christian]

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>"

Ummm... I think you may be wrong about this.  My ping only allows the
super user to use the -s flag.  For example: