Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

> > UDP Bomb - By sending a UDP packet with incorrect information in the
> > header, some Sun-OS 4.1.3 Unix boxes will panic and then reboot.
>
> Anyone willing to say _what_ this magic incorrect information is? I'd
> much rather not have to take the time to grab the patch, uncompile both
> it and the file(s) it replaces, and try to figure it out from there.

sending a bad length field in a UDP packet used to panic
sun4.1.x boxes. (by bad I mean something like 0 or 1, smaller
than the size of the udp header even). I'm not sure if
this is the same bug mentioned.

> der Mouse
> mouse_at_collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Received on May 22 1996