Re: Ok to let all ICMP traffic through firewall?

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: 30 Sep 2005 08:50:56 +0200

In comp.security.misc E. <bellyup@the.bar> wrote:
> > or PING of Death?
> My (hazy) memory seems to recall that the POD only affected the stack on
> certain Win95 clients.

This is wrong: http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html

Yours,
VB. 

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