On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 04:38:46 -0600 (CST), Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
What is the risk of publishing your dynamic IP address to a web page while you are on line? How vulnerable is >> >someone just connected to the internet, w/o any server running? What attacks are feasable? --Internaut
Well, if you are running Win95 (all) or 3.1 (w/certain TCP/IP stacks) your machine can be locked up or rebooted at *any* time using just PING!
Isn't is Unix that is actually vulnerable?
Actually, it anything from Windows systems to Unix boxes to routers to printers to firewalls, etc can be vulnerable..! I know that linux got a patch out in 2 hours 35 minutes 10 seconds and that OS/2 hasn't been vulnerable since 1990 or so, but that's just because I use those systems. Check http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/ for details on your system. # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)