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Re: Solaris Ping bug (DoS)

From: klynn () SURFSOFT COM (Kevin M Lynn)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:46:54 -0700


For what it's worth..

According to an unnamed source within Sun Microsystems, they have been
aware of this denial-of-service exploit for at least 2 weeks (possibly
a lot longer.. my friend and I have only been aware of it for 2 weeks) and
have not released a patch to it yet.

Current thread:

Re: Solaris Ping bug (DoS) Jes Sorensen (Jun 26)
- Re: Solaris Ping bug (DoS) Kevin M Lynn (Jun 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Solaris Ping bug (DoS) Will Kempf (Jun 27)
  - Re: Solaris Ping bug (DoS) Philip Kizer (Jun 27)
  - smbmount buffer overflow Gerald Britton (Jun 27)
    - Solaris Ping DOS - Best solution? Anton T. Rager (Jun 27)
    - Re: smbmount buffer overflow Volker.Lendecke (Jun 28)
    - BIND/iX updated to 8.1.1-REL production release Aleph One (Jun 28)
    - ping exploit fATE 1997 BABY (Jun 28)
    - sping binary fATE 1997 BABY (Jun 28)
    - [ALERT] Another nuke. Aleph One (Jun 29)
    - Re: [ALERT] Another nuke. Brian Mitchell (Jun 29)

(Thread continues...)