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Re: pingflood.c
From: avarvit () CC ECE NTUA GR (Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis)
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:39:07 +0300
/* pingflood.c by (AntireZ) Salvatore Sanfilippo <md5330 () mclink it> enhanced by David Welton <davidw () cks com> I tested it only on Linux RedHat 4.1 and 5.0. David Welton tested it on Debian GNU/Linux and OpenBSD reporting it works. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
[64 lines deleted] Verified it on SunOS 5.5.1. Basically, it is so simple that it should work on any Unix box. The "bug" in ping's code is that the code naively assumes the SIGALRM is system-generated (due to a previous alarm() call). At least on SunOS 5.5.1, sigaction(2) can be used to examine the source of the SIGALRM (e.g. check that (siginfo_t *)si->si_code > 0 -- (siginfo_t *)si is returned to the signal handler if the sa_flags member of the struct sigaction passed to sigaction() has the SA_SIGINFO bit set). I am not sure how this can be implemented on other systems. BTW, how many setuid programs are there that will catch various signals and will behave "not-as-expected" when forked off by a signal-bomber parent process, such as pingflood? a.varvitsiotis () iccs ntua gr A.Varvitsiotis ICCS Computer Center National Technical University of Athens
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