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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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