On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Eduardo Cruz wrote: > Last week i was playing with my old linux 2.0.36 i486 box, while i was playing with the command ping and trying combinations of commands > i found that when u do a ping -s 65468 -R ANYIPADDRESS ( -R record route) the system starts to print on the screen kernel dumps > , freezes complitely and after few secconds the system reboots. > > The major problem with this (if this is a bug, because i dont have time to install differents kernels and test it better) is that command can be run by everyone > because you dont need root permissions to make a -R. > > I tested this on a 2.0.35 and .36 (both slackware), when u try to do this on a 2.2.x the system prints out "message too long". > I think the problem is that there is a size-check missed when u reach the maximun packet size and u put the route information, but anyway > i am not a guru on kernels. Being no guru I noticed there were some patches for these kernels and 2.0.x kernels now run into 2.0.38 so I suggest you test 2.0.38 before you yell BUG. Browsing the info on http://www.kernelnotes.org/ does at least make one wonder wether this is a known issue that's solved as there are changes in the networking code. Hugo. -- Hugo van der Kooij; Oranje Nassaustraat 16; 3155 VJ Maasland hvdkooijat_private http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hvdkooij/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Use of any of my email addresses for unsollicited (commercial) email is a clear intrusion of my privacy and illegal!
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