Re: p-smash halts Microsoft Windows 98

[Pedro Ortale Neto <ortale () UNSECURITY COM BR>]

Dear Paulo,

20:32:52.210938 bad_hacker_host > victim host : icmp: router advertisement lifetime 0 67: [size 16]
20:32:52.212010 bad_hacker_host > victim host : icmp: router advertisement lifetime 0 67: [size 16]
[ ... ]

I tested 5 different types of windows 98 (obviously, 5 level's of
paches) and the target's r not halted.

In a LAN enviroment, logically the 'fake' targets are subjected to flood
attacks in a many tipes of protocols and OS .

Regards,

Pedro Ortale Neto

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Paulo Ribeiro wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
>
> I've been sending different ICMP types and codes to a Win98 machine in
> my LAN. While I've sent the ICMP type 9 code 0, the Win98 machine simply
> halted.
>
> So, I've made a program (p-smash.c, which is attached) and I'm sending
> it for you.
>
> Please, remember that I've only tested it on my LAN.
>
> Yours,
> Paulo Ribeiro - prrar () nitnet com br