IP: Ping o'Death from Windows 95 -- from RISKS

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: 6 Nov 1996 17:18:18 +0000
From: "Nick BROWN" <Nick.BROWN () DCT coe fr> (Tel (+33)388412674)


Anybody with an Internet site, especially those without firewalls, should
check out http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/.  It details how anybody with
Windows 95 and an IP address (hmmm, there might be one or two out there...)
can crash a large range of network equipment (HP 3000, DEC Alpha, IBM
RS/6000, LaserJet printers, Netware servers, Windows PCs, routers, etc),
apparently across the entire Internet.