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List:       netbsd-port-mac68k
Subject:    Re: URGENT security help needed
From:       "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride () mac ! com>
Date:       2002-03-18 7:50:31
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At 8:45 PM -0800 3/17/02, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>I've just been informed that a critical server (running NetBSD-mac68k)
>just got yanked off the net because it was flooding the heck out of the
>network.  The machine has been in use for over two years without blinking.
>I suspect it's some sort of security vulnerability in the TCP stack
>somewhere, as I remember vaguely reading about something similar in NetBSD
>a while back.  Unfortunately, I can't find jack on the 'net about it.
>
>I don't have access to the machine currently.  I'll do a post-mortem
>tomorrow morning, but I doubt I'll find anything.  It just doesn't seem
>likely that anything outside the kernel on a Quadra 800 would be able to
>saturate multiple T1 lines....  :-)

But a failing NIC can.

Mike
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