Re: Linux Kernel 2.2.13 shooting Solaris ADSM server

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:44:14 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Any hints as to where to track this odd behaviour down? My headaches are

> Take a tcpdump of the failure case. Make sure its repeatable. Post a
> message to the IBM security contact point about it then post info
> about the denial of serivce attack against the IBM ADSM you found to
> bugtraq.
>
> Wait a couple of days for IBM to recover 8)

It's easier than that. The ADSMd (or whatever it's called) dies horribly
if the client sends a utsname.release longer than 8 or 9 characters.

So stock vendor kernels with names like "2.2.12-20smp" are good for
shooting down ASDM servers :)

Matthew.

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