This Denial of service attack has been maded public already in september I haven't seen it discust here. It is really dangerous every system is affected not only one little program but again as the ping of death the tcp-ip stack is vulnerable.

link to files http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11258/exploit/

Well, it looks like neither my WinXP machines nor my Linux machines are vulnerable to it.

They must've botched up the code.

Or its a non-genuine exploit.

^^These are the original exploits that were released to the public. And this exploit falls into the category of the ping of death, you need to sent many of them to cause huge amounts usage of resources. They are a million time more effective then normal ping flooding, this will not shut down your Internet connection only cause resource exhausting and traffic. If you want you can create an ack/syn storm by attacking several hosts with each others ips they will fire back at each other. Sent to many host with one ip and they all fire at that ip (ddos with ack/syn icmp storm + packet fragmentation overflow, read the exploits for more info)

Have fun.

what the hell are you talking about

ping of death is an old exploit where sending atleast just ONE ping of size 64k exactly would cause any win 95 comp to crash.

Yes you are right I maded a mistake.

The category is the one of the Packets fragmentation handling as explained above, my mistake was that I tought the ping of death had does this too, I messed up some names after so many years.

You can find a complete discription of the method used by New Dawn http://digital.net/~gandalf/Rose_Frag_Attack_Explained.htm

and look here for some more info about which systems are affected.http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11258/info/

Well, that's nice I suppose. ;)

Even more of a reason for people to educate themselves on such matters.

Have the ability to fuck, or be fucked.

quote:Originally posted by cvh:

I maded a mistake.



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