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Article #9Re: SECURITY: Bug in linux networking stack
From: Rafal Maszkowski
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:55
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:55
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On 30 Oct 1996 13:49:11 GMT Zbigniew Zych <zych@onet.pl> wrote: : There is a nasty bug whereby AIX, Digital Unix, Linux and possibly some : other systems can be brought down remotely by a suitably constructed : oversize packet. Unfortunately a bug in another well known PC operating : system means its easy to generate such packets. : ** This bug is being actively exploited on the internet against all the : ** mentioned systems. This fix should be considered essential as should : ** other equivalent vendor fixes : The following Linux fix drops such faulty frames and will also be included : in 2.0.24 : Alan Cox Juz jest 2.0.24. R. -- Rafal Maszkowski rzm@torun.pdi.net http://www.torun.pdi.net/~rzm Opinia publiczna powinna byc zaalarmowana swoim nieistnieniem - St. J. Lec
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news-archive.icm.edu.pl!pingwin.icm.edu.pl!news.icm.edu.pl!news.icm.edu.pl!news.man.torun.pl!mat.uni.torun.pl!torun.pdi.net!rzm From: Rafal Maszkowski <rzm@torun.pdi.net> Newsgroups: pl.comp.security Subject: Re: SECURITY: Bug in linux networking stack Date: 30 Oct 1996 14:55:08 GMT Organization: Publiczny Dostep do Internetu Lines: 18 Message-ID: <557q8c$ta@rymunda.torun.pdi.net> References: <557mcn$m0a@jurek.onet.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: rymunda.torun.pdi.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960916] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit