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Re: "teardrop" attack

Previously Sue Ann Campbell wrote:
> I have seen no mention of the teardrop attack on the Debian mailing
> lists. Are there plans for new releases of 2.0.29 and 2.0.30
> with the patch applied?

The teardrop attack exploits a bug in IP defragmenting code in operating
systems. When a packet must be defragmented the kernel allocates memory
and copies the data from the various fragments into the new buffer. There
is a bug in calculating the length of the data that must be copied causing
the kernel to copy too much data. 

Not only Linux suffers from this but a lot of other systems suffer from
this bug (Win95, WinNT, Novell, etc.). 

There is a known patch for Linux 2.0.31 which will be incorporated in 2.0.32.
I'm not sure if it is in 2.1.64.

Wichert.

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