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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1994: "Flash"??

"Flash"??

That Whispering Wolf... (elfchieflupine.org)
Thu, 18 Aug 1994 10:33:12 -0400 

This isn't so much a security question as a question about a possible denial-
of-service attack.

A user on my system talked to me about a program that's going around called
'flash', that supposedly uses in.talkd to flood a user's session into 
unusability. He has a binary for this program, but no source, so I can't
see what the program actually does.

He also mentions a patch for in.talkd to prevent this program from working.
He doesn't know of a source for the patch, etc, though.

Has anyone seen this one? Anybody know the details?

									-WW