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

On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, The Nemasys wrote:

> Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
> > I heard a rumor that the following ping crashes some SPARCs running
> > 2.5.1.
> > ping -sv -i 127.0.0.1 224.0.0.1
> > I haven't had the chance to try it myself yet. My machine is busy right
> > now and I dont want to risk crashing it at this time.
>
> Sure does! And quickly too. I tried it onn several systems (2.4-2.5.1,
> patched and unpatched), same results.

There's a patch due soon for Solaris <= 2.5.1; the fix has already been integrated into 2.6.

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