Re: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....

[hpj () one se (Henrik P Johnson)]

On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Jason T. Luttgens wrote:

>         Today we saw an email from Linus Torvalds advising of a problem
> with Linux and ping.  Basically you can reboot a linux box remotely if
> some scenario's are right.  From what we can tell and this has all been
> verified is: If anyone in the world with a Windows 95 machine can ping
> your
> Linux box they can potentially reboot that machine.. Hence a serious
> denial of service OR loss of data.

This also works on HPUX 10.1, when I tried it I got a system panic and the
machine hang and didn't reboot.

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