Re: proof of exploited code

From: Dimitry Andric (dimat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 11:08:42 PDT

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On 2001-06-06 at 08:38 Blue Boar wrote:

>So what is it then, a fork bomb for the machine that runs it?

It's copy/pasted from <http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/64863>.
When run locally, it seems to be able to eat up network resources,
and so cause a local DoS. I have no idea whether this is still a
problem.

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