Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils ping/ping6 tools

[paul.szabo () sydney edu au]

> How is this different from writing a fork bomb?

Fork bombs do not run privileged, but /bin/ping is setuid root.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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