Re: Denial of service attack against tcpdump

[Hugo.van.der.Kooij () CAIW NL (Hugo.van.der.Kooij () CAIW NL)]

On Tue, 2 May 2000 bretonh () PARANOIA PGCI CA wrote:

> There is a way to disable tcpdump running on a remote host.  By sending a
> carefully crafted UDP packet on the network which tcpdump monitors, it is
> possible, under certain circonstances, to make tcpdump fall into an infinite
> loop.

Could it be that iptraf suffers a similar weakness? (Or even worse?)

I noticed that iptraf dies on me too often during network tests.

Hugo.

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