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Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
From: eburke () cslab vt edu (Eli Burke)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:14:13 -0400
Subject: Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....cy>> > Today we saw an email from Linus Torvalds advising of a problem cy>> >with Linux and ping. Basically you can reboot a linux box remotely if cy>> >some scenario's are right. From what we can tell and this has all been cy>> >verified is: If anyone in the world with a Windows 95 machine can ping cy>> >your Linux box they can potentially reboot that machine.. My Friend tested in this machines:1) Reboot: OSF/1 3.2C, Solaris2.4 x86I tested this under OSF/1 3.2 and had no problems. Same for DUnix 4.0, Ultrix 4.4, Windows NT 4.0 (server and workstation), and FreeBSD 2.1.5.
[snip] Wiping off the egg, I take back what I said. This successfully crashes OSF/1 3.2 and DUnix 4.0 _when done from WinNT or Win95_. Thanks Bill. :) -- Eli Burke eburke () vt edu http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~eburke/
Current thread:
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Nelson Murilo (Oct 20)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Eli Burke (Oct 20)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... kewl aid smile (Oct 21)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Jon Lewis (Oct 21)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Alan Cox (Oct 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Eli Burke (Oct 20)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Jared Mauch (Oct 20)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Oliver Xymoron (Oct 21)
- Ping problem patch page Mike Bremford (Oct 21)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Henrik P Johnson (Oct 21)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Jared Mauch (Oct 20)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Timothy Brown (Oct 21)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Tazman (Oct 22)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Tom Guptill (Oct 22)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... David O'Brien (Oct 25)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Alan Cox (Oct 25)
- Re[2]: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... Mike Bremford (Oct 25)
- Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... David O'Brien (Oct 25)
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