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Bugtraq: Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

From: Jonny Llama <llama_at_ra1.randomc.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:36:56 -0400

>
> > 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.

>From that snippet you quoted I'd guess thats its the SunOS flaw where if
it gets a packet with ip_options of an invalid size, it freaks out. I
guess I should quit doing all this important stuff and go read that file.

*shrug*

>
> der Mouse
>
> mouse_at_collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
>

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Received on May 22 1996

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