Re: Attacks bringing my system down!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:54:17 +0100 (BST)


> systems (during the attack itself) but don't kill them off. Our system
> adminstrator
> said that the Linux kernel is full of race conditions that cause it to
> crash under these circumstances...

Oh dear one of those. I guess he's still grumpy that V7 no longer exists 8)

> Is there some way to reconfigure my system to make it less vulnerable?

The high bandwidth suggests that the attack is the icmp bug one and being done
by someone clueless - try the students therefore. If so then it shouldnt be
a problem unless you are well behind on the Red Hat updates/errata - the
2.2.5-22 kernel rpm fixed this.

Alan

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