Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.28 - Teardrop_Land

Charles M. Hannum (mycroft@MIT.EDU)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:12:18 -0500

Aleph One <aleph1@DFW.NET> writes:

>
> The NetBSD Project
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> Topic 2 - Land
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> No feedback.

Versions prior to 1.3_BETA will hang. 1.3_BETA and later versions are
not vulnerable.

> Red Hat Software
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> Topic 1 - Teardrop
>
> Linux is not vulnerable.

It's well known that versions of Linux prior to publishing of the
teardrop attack *were* vulnerable. The above borders on an outright
lie.