full-disclosure - Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils ping/ping6 tools

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:30:50 -0400
From: Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@...il.com>
To: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk,
	Christophe Alladoum <Christophe.Alladoum@....fr>
Subject: Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils
 ping/ping6 tools

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 18:17, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de> wrote:
> How is this different from writing a fork bomb?

I could imagine applications which accept ping interval and do not
filter it. That's a class of application which would not be affected
by a fork bomb (since they do not allow execution of arbitrary
commands), but would be affect by this (as long as the user is allowed
to alter the ping interval).

But yes, it seems like a fairly small affected class of applications.
Fun hole though, and no sense in leaving it unpatched.

-- 
Darius Jahandarie

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