1996-12-17 - Re: Ping of Death?
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From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: james@hotwired.com (James Glave)
Message Hash: c7a189a31347f1f267582531117a7527fc8812c08341398f9d4339e24e70c190
Message ID: <199612172317.PAA22019@slack.lne.com>
Reply To: <v02140b03aedcc334a2e2@[204.62.132.92]>
UTC Datetime: 1996-12-17 23:19:07 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:19:07 -0800 (PST)
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From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:19:07 -0800 (PST)
To: james@hotwired.com (James Glave)
Subject: Re: Ping of Death?
In-Reply-To: <v02140b03aedcc334a2e2@[204.62.132.92]>
Message-ID: <199612172317.PAA22019@slack.lne.com>
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James Glave writes:
>
> Anyone heard of the Ping of Death, aka the Ping Bomb. It's a large chunk of
> hostile code, disguised as a mere ping, that can lead to server rebooting.
>
It would be quite a trick to get an OS to run code from inside
a ping packet. Are you sure this isn't the well-known giant ping packet bug?
Receiving one or more of those can cause some hosts to reboot.
--
Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm
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- 1996-12-17 (Tue, 17 Dec 1996 14:40:52 -0800 (PST)) - Ping of Death? - james@hotwired.com (James Glave)
- 1996-12-17 (Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:19:07 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ping of Death? - Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
- 1996-12-18 (Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:35:21 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ping of Death? - Genocide <gen2600@aracnet.com>
- 1996-12-18 (Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:43:12 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ping of Death? - Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
- 1996-12-17 (Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:19:07 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ping of Death? - Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>