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Re: Alert: Teardrop2 Attack - Update #4
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Re: Alert: Teardrop2 Attack - Update #4

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: Re: Alert: Teardrop2 Attack - Update #4
  • From: Russ <Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 01:58:37 -0500
  • Reply-To: Russ <Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA>
  • Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
Forget my DNS theories, the attack used carefully crafted UDP DNS
packets to trigger the Teardrop2-like kernel crashes. They were not
valid DNS packets. DNS was likely used as a way through Firewalls.

Cheers,
Russ