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Re: CERT Advisory CA-96.26 - Denial-of-Service Attack via ping (fwd)
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> for those who mocked Linux for being vulnerable to large pings and such:
> the joke is on YOU :-) this hits other systems too.
>
>
<CERT advisory snipped>
For those of you who are a little more interested in the so called 'Ping
o' Death', try this page : http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/ .
It has been a known problem in some of the unices for a while, but the
shit really hit the fan on Linux, when alot of hackers started to spread
word of this around.
N.
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