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Subject: Re: Local Denial-of-Service attack against Linux
From: dapozza (dapozzaHOME.NL)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 05:04:27 CST


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:55:09 -0500, you wrote:

>This amusing little program will hang Linux 2.2.12 (default Red Hat 6.1),
>2.2.14 (latest stable kernel) and 2.3.99-pre2 (latest development kernel)
>on my 6x86 scratch machine and our various Pentium development machines.
>Note that this does not require any special privileges.

Tried it on my Redhat 6.1 box with the 2.2.14 kernel as non root and
it worked. I can ping the box but telnet hung.

Marco van Raaij
Sysadmin Van Wijhe Verf BV Zwolle