RE: About ping request?

From: Ian P. Christian (pookey@pookey.co.uk)
Date: 05/27/02 

From: "Ian P. Christian" <pookey@pookey.co.uk>
To: "'Chris Shepherd'" <chriss@whstuart.com>, "'Jens Benecke'" <mail-020524@jensbenecke.de>, "'Patrick Morris'" <pmorris@wilshire.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:42:57 +0100

http://www.phrack.com/show.php?p=49&a=6

HTH 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Shepherd [mailto:chriss@whstuart.com] 
> Sent: 27 May 2002 19:09
> To: Jens Benecke; Patrick Morris
> Cc: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: About ping request?
> 
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> At 01:33 PM 5/24/2002 +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> >Please elaborate. I don't see what 'nastiness' can be hidden 
> inside an
> >ICMP echo-request packet, unless your TCP/IP stack is really severely
> >broken.
> 
> I believe he's referring to the various trojans that listen 
> for a specific 
> sized ping packet before activating.
> 
> 
> Chris Shepherd
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