Re: Naptha - New DoS

["Michael H. Warfield" <mhw () WITTSEND COM>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:57:41PM +0800, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> At 12:17 PM 12/7/00 -0500, White Vampire wrote:

> I find it interesting that Redhat 7.0 is said to be not affected whereas
> Redhat 6.1 is. Why is that the case? Is it a configuration issue on 6.1?

        They do have different kernel versions.  Anything prior to 2.2.17
should be upgraded anyways...  If it's a protocol stack problem (which
it sounds like) then the kernel version could have an impact.  It's
still possible that it might be some kernel tuning parameters, but I
would think that unlikely.  If it's something under control of the
applications, almost all of the apps are updated to newer versions.
I would first try 6.1 with the latest kernel and see if that's vulnerable.
If 7.0 is not vulnerable, that's where I would place my bet.

> Cheerio,
> Link.

        Mike
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