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Re: Here is a way to crash Solaris using ping!

From: Mark Heath <mheath_at_netspace.net.au>
Date: 1997/07/02
Message-ID: <5pcrpl$9fs$2@otis.netspace.net.au>#1/1

Mark Grosberg (markg_at_toledo.emi.net) wrote:

: No. But I know of a great way to crash most Windoze boxes. Do a web search
: for "winnuke" and play with it. Win95 hard resets, Win311 locks, and WinNT
: blue screens out. Where do you want to go today?

Have you heard of the SSPING bug? Forge a fragmented ping packet of larger than 63336 bytes and bye bye remote host. Apparantly crashes Win95, Win NT, MacOS and Some Unix's.

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-- mark heath - Netspace Online Systems.  http://www.netspace.net.au/
:wq
Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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