Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

[llama () ra1 randomc com (Jonny Llama)]

> > 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*

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