Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

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>
>> UDP Bomb - By sending a UDP packet with incorrect information in the
>> header, some Sun-OS 4.1.3 Unix boxes will panic and then reboot.
>
>Anyone willing to say _what_ this magic incorrect information is?  I'd
>much rather not have to take the time to grab the patch, uncompile both
>it and the file(s) it replaces, and try to figure it out from there.
>

I wonder.. could this be referring to the old source route bug that
would cause SunOS machines to crash (usually using ping -l)
?

Doug

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