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Re: [Full-disclosure] [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils ping/ping6 tools
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils ping/ping6 tools
- From: paul.szabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:53:22 +1100
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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