Re: New teardrop attacks: linux ok??

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:13:34 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I noticed someone on comp.os.freebsd.misc has alleged Linux isn't immune
> > to the newest wave of teardrop like attacks. Is there any truth in this?
>
> According to both testing and the author of the improved teardrop attack
> Linux is not affected but 95/NT are [and MS have a hotfix out].

In which case, as long as you're sure :), it offends me greatly that the
President(?) of the FreeBSD project spewed forth this on
comp.os.freebsd.misc:

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