On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:17:48AM +0100, Ulf Munkedal wrote:
> Have I missed something on the list lately about these illegal packets that
> CERT are adressing ("constructing a sequence of packets with certain
> characteristics, an intruder can cause vulnerable systems to crash, hang,
> or behave in unpredictable ways")?
>
> Or is this just the old teardrop/newtear/boink/bonk/nestea2 problem that
> they are talking about?
>
No. This is an entirely new problem. It was discovered by me after a bug
report for an SMP FreeBSD system. Since I know it is only a matter
of time before such a bug would be abused, I decided to inform
CERT (also because the problem has been present since at least the
BSD Net/2 release). No public exploits are known to me.
-Guido
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