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Back in the day you could disconnect some modems by sending certain strings over any higher level protocol, e.g. ICMP or IRC.
by the8472 5y ago
Back in the day you could disconnect some modems by sending certain strings over any higher level protocol, e.g. ICMP or IRC.
- segfaultbuserr 5y agoI think this vulnerability is one of the most embarrassing blunders caused by a software patent.
- doggodaddo78 5y agoBack in the day, you could: - Hijack TCP sessions very easily with IP hijacking, especially telnet - DoS someone with a smurf attack - Ping of death windoze - Inject content into unencrypted pages (goatse everyone's web page backgrounds) - Get hacked by running inetd services - chargen ... nuf said - Apply a zillion patches to a Solaris box but break 10 other things
- kalleboo 5y agoLinksys WRT54G, Netgear 614/624 routers: sending `DCC SEND foo 0 0 0` would boot people off IRC Norton Personal Firewall: `startkeylogger` would boot you off of IRC These would typically be combined into `DCC SEND startkeylogger 0 0 0` to grief a whole channel of people
- beermonster 5y agoReminds me of this back in the day: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1998/Sep/192 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1998/Sep/192