Re: DoS possible in Net*8

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:13:54 +0000
Message-ID: <36C45342.A194BE7@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>

Chris,

I thought this was a SQL*NetV2 bug and was resolved in Oracle8....it used to happen on NT Intel.

Chris.

Chris Fowler wrote:
>
> Has anybody heard of a denial of service attack on the listener for
> oracle 8
> that causes the cpu used by the listener to climb to 100%? I have the
> details and can reproduce the fault on HPUX and Digital machines. I
> contacted Oracle about this problem and their advice has been simply to
> 'don't do it'. I am not happy about this and would like to hear if
> anyone else has come across this problem and if they have managed to
> solve it.
> If you have any info please email as well as posting because we have a
> terrible news service.
> Thanks
> Chris Fowler
> chris.fowler_at_ast.co.za
Received on Fri Feb 12 1999 - 10:13:54 CST