Ping of Death?
Eric Murray
ericm at lne.com
Tue Dec 17 15:19:07 PST 1996
James Glave writes:
>
> Anyone heard of the Ping of Death, aka the Ping Bomb. It's a large chunk of
> hostile code, disguised as a mere ping, that can lead to server rebooting.
>
It would be quite a trick to get an OS to run code from inside
a ping packet. Are you sure this isn't the well-known giant ping packet bug?
Receiving one or more of those can cause some hosts to reboot.
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