Ping o'death

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• Subject: Ping o'death
• From: Chris Welty <weltyc@cs.vassar.edu>
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 09:48:05 EST
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I just wanted to make all of you aware that macos 7.5.2-7.5.5 running
opentransport up to and including OT1.1.1 is vunerable to the "ping of
death".  This is a very large and invalid ping packet that certain bad
ping implementations can send, and due to its size will crash the
mac.  For more information check out

http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/index.html 


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Christopher Welty                         Vassar College Computer Science Dept.
weltyc@cs.vassar.edu                                     Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/faculty/welty                           (914) 437-5992

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