In some mail from L. Sassaman, sie said: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This was first posted to the FreeBSD security list on the 9th of August, > subsequently discussed on freebsd-stable and freebsd-hackers... no one > seems to care, even though it is able to lock up 2.2.6, 2.2.8, and 3.2.x > machines consistantly. I have also been told that it affects NetBSD and > OpenBSD, though I haven't confirmed it. > > Someone with the know-how care to fix? Fixing this has been discussed internally, I imagine, by many of the affected OS's. The problem is a resource stavation issue - in this case mbuf's. Arguably, it shouldn't "lock up", just freeze up anything that does networking. I imagine you could lock up more than just the *BSD's with this program. Darren
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