Re: "Flash"??
Jas (matt@uts.EDU.AU)
Fri, 19 Aug 1994 11:50:01 +1000 (EST)
That Whispering Wolf... wrote me this...
>
> This isn't so much a security question as a question about a possible denial-
> of-service attack.
>
> A user on my system talked to me about a program that's going around called
> 'flash', that supposedly uses in.talkd to flood a user's session into
> unusability. He has a binary for this program, but no source, so I can't
> see what the program actually does.
>
> He also mentions a patch for in.talkd to prevent this program from working.
> He doesn't know of a source for the patch, etc, though.
>
> Has anyone seen this one? Anybody know the details?
>
yeah this program is quite widely available in IRC cricles, ie for trashing
people you dont like off irc. an easy way around this is to type
"stty sane^J" after an attack then run tset, and it should clear up (i have
been hit a number of times). if you want the source for flash and the
source for the patch email me and i'll surf for it.
Matt
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