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

I seem to remember hearing a rumor that Sun has issued a kernel patch for this problem. What is the patchID?

Chris Raymond

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Dean Smith wrote:

> Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
> >
> > root_at_taylor.neca.com (root) writes:
> >
> > >As requested the results of fdisk -l
> >
> > And this crashes your Linux system? I have tried it several times
> > on mine and it works just fine, as expected. Sounds like you may have
> > a badly configured system.
> >
> > Also the Solaris ping crash does not require you to be root. A root
> > user can always crash their system with 'rm -r /' on almost any Unix.
> >
> > Linux is impossible to crash from a non-root user account unlike its
> > big brother Unices. Talk about rock solid.
> >
>
> Don't be silly, that's like saying Linux has no bugs, which as almost
> anyone will know is a daft thing to say about an OS, espicially one
> being developed as quickly as Linux.
>
> And while we are on the subject, I seem to remember a rather nasty ping
> attack was posible against Linux and many other OS's a while back,
> didn't even need an account ( Solaris wasn't affected as it happens ) so
> even 'Mighty Linux' has problems like this.
>
> Anyway, the point is having a 'My UNIX is better than your UNIX'
> argument is a bit like having an 'My Supercar is better than your
> Supercar'. At the end of the day everyone else would juist be happy to
> own a super car.
>
> Dean
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT