Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

[newsham () aloha net (Tim Newsham)]

> > UDP Bomb - By sending a UDP packet with incorrect information in the
> > header, some Sun-OS 4.1.3 Unix boxes will panic and then reboot.
>
> Anyone willing to say _what_ this magic incorrect information is?  I'd
> much rather not have to take the time to grab the patch, uncompile both
> it and the file(s) it replaces, and try to figure it out from there.

sending a bad length field in a UDP packet used to panic
sun4.1.x boxes.  (by bad I mean something like 0 or 1, smaller
than the size of the udp header even).  I'm not sure if
this is the same bug mentioned.

>                                         der Mouse
>                             mouse () collatz mcrcim mcgill edu