Vulnerability Development: ping flooding as normal user

[Slawek <sgp () TELSATGP COM PL>]

Hello,


I'm not sure if it's new informations, but as far as I can see it works at
least on most of current systems (worked everywhere I could test it).


The problem is:

-s parameter of ping command has no upper limit for normal users.
This allows normal users to send for example 1 * 60000 bytes of ICMP data
per second (from one copy of ping invoked)

I think it's just great for DoSing ;o)


Bye,
Slawek