Bugtraq: Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

[Doug.Hughes () Eng Auburn EDU (Doug Hughes)]

> > 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.
I wonder.. could this be referring to the old source route bug that
would cause SunOS machines to crash (usually using ping -l)
?

Doug