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

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Message-Id: <201203140153.q2E1rMGE022667@bari.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:53:22 +1100
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils
	ping/ping6 tools

> How is this different from writing a fork bomb?

Fork bombs do not run privileged, but /bin/ping is setuid root.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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