Re: Two birds with one worm.

[Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch () tux creighton edu>]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> My Linux 2.4.5 netfilter firewall started locking up hard when these
> default.ida requests started this morning.  No kernel panic, it just
> locks.  I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly what the problem is.

I can't confirm that.  I have a number of netfilter firewalls (running
2.4.3 and 2.4.6) that haven't even noticed this worm.

> I have another 2.4.5 machine (with fewer kernel options enabled) that is
> doing fine.  If someone has more info w/regard to linux, please post...

First thing to do is upgrade to 2.4.6.  2.4.5 has some memory management
issues, as well as quite a few other bugs that are fixed (at least
somewhat) in 2.4.6.

In other words, I would look elsewhere before blaming this worm for a
Linux crash.

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Phil Brutsche                               pbrutsch () tux creighton edu

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