-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Darren Reed wrote: > 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 I've tested it on various Linuxes, and they are't suseceptible. One of the people I had discussed this with previously reported having a mess of errors with his system after rebooting his server multiple times after he ran the program. I couldn't get my BSD boxes to respond to anything at the console when I tried after running it, but even if it only affected all things networking-related, that is bad enough. L. Sassaman System Administrator | "Even the most primitive society has Technology Consultant | an innate respect for the insane." icq.. 10735603 | pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Mickey Rourke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v0.9.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred. iD8DBQE3zetFPYrxsgmsCmoRAryAAJ9+YPts2N2OjoBGjQxB02gTP4HWSQCfa3ad vj8TjScHltJZvpCee0o2Ug8= =vsu6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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