full-disclosure - IRIX IGMP multicast report Denial of Service vulnerability

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Message-ID: <10209180906.ZM110484@einstein.csd.sgi.com>
From: agent99 at sgi.com (SGI Security Coordinator)
Subject: IRIX IGMP multicast report Denial of Service vulnerability

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                           SGI Security Advisory

         Title:  IGMP multicast report Denial of Service vulnerability
        Number:  20020901-01-A
          Date:  September 18, 2002
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SGI acknowledges the IGMP multicast report DoS vulnerability reported at:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~krishna/igmp_dos/, and is currently investigating.

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