As an interesting side note, Ethereal (a popular open source sniffer / traffic analyzer) crashes every time it sees this packet also. It gives the error "GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1 bytes aborting...". this caught my attention for two reasons. my probably wrong explantion for this is the following: 1) mangled packet sent, containing some large values (no idea what) 2) ettercap recieves and processes this saying that int whatever = <large value from packet> 3) int returns unsigned, classic integer overflow style. 4) passed to malloc as an unsigned value, malloc shits itself. 5) ettercap spits out cant allocate <whatever> bytes. possibly exploitable (heap + int == hard ;)) someone prove me wrong _please_ davidr _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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