Re: New teardrop attacks: linux ok??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:47:43 +0000 (GMT)

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> 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:

To quote the author of the exploit

"Linux appears unaffected, other *NIXes untested"

> "serious TCP/IP bug." *BSD has never been vulnerable to this bug at
> all, by comparison.

BSD was and most BSD boxes are of course subject to the "land" attack
which Linux never was as he points out below.

> it the bug du-jour, and we all suffer from those occasionally. In time

Go ahead. And if he does have a variant teardrop that can crash 2.0.33 I'll
be glad to fix it

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