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Ping of death was already a thing two decades ago. https://web.archive.org/web/19981206105844/http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/ https://web.archive.org/web/

by Rygian 1y ago

Ping of death was already a thing two decades ago. https://web.archive.org/web/19981206105844/http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/ https://web.archive.org/web/19981206105844/http://www.sophis...

_rrnv 1y ago
DOS yes, but that freebsd cve I referenced is a theoretical RCE.
dgfitz 1y ago
This link doesn’t show me anything useful.
- giantrobot 1y ago
  Try scrolling down. On mobile (maybe because of ad blockers) Wayback pages have a full screen of white space above the page contents anymore for me. This happens on pretty much every Wayback page I've tried. It's also relatively recent and I'm not sure the exact cause.
- jasongill 1y ago
  Try https://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html https://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html
jasongill 1y ago
It was actually almost 3 decades ago, making me feel extremely old - the period right at the end of '96 and into mid '97 when this was a popular way to cause mischief via IRC was truly a magical time
- chasd00 1y ago
  Death on flaxxen wings
- anyfoo 1y ago
  Hard to believe that during those times in IRC, you were used to automatically (and proudly) advertising your IP address, your exact client version, and the means for a direct connection to your client without any server in between (CTCP, literally “client-to-client protocol”). And all of that most often with no packet filter whatsoever, not even NAT, in between. Everything was plaintext, including “authentication”, which was (at best) just asking the “ident server” on the same machine as your client who you claimed to be, which was considered sufficient because, after all, to run identd on its “privileged” low port meant you were an “administrator” (i.e. root of a unix machine).
  - sneak 1y ago
    CTCP messages still go through the server. DCC (direct client connection) are the p2p connections you are thinking of, but they of course don’t work behind nat. I was behind NAT when I first got on IRC in ‘98. I set it up with ipfwadm.
    - anyfoo 1y ago
      Ah you are right, I mixed CTCP and DCC up. The former was also used to set up the latter I think? (Among other things.) I joined IRC in the early 90s, there was no NAT then, packet filtering was uncommon, and practically nothing on the Internet was encrypted. It was a very different time.
driverdan 1y ago
When I was in college circa 2001 we used to prank each other with the ping of death and other crash exploits. Also random IPs on the college network when we were bored. It was crazy how long it was around for and how easy it was to exploit.

by Rygian 1y ago

Ping of death was already a thing two decades ago. https://web.archive.org/web/19981206105844/http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/ https://web.archive.org/web/19981206105844/http://www.sophis...

_rrnv 1y ago

DOS yes, but that freebsd cve I referenced is a theoretical RCE.

dgfitz 1y ago

This link doesn’t show me anything useful.

giantrobot 1y ago
Try scrolling down. On mobile (maybe because of ad blockers) Wayback pages have a full screen of white space above the page contents anymore for me. This happens on pretty much every Wayback page I've tried. It's also relatively recent and I'm not sure the exact cause.
jasongill 1y ago
Try https://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html https://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html

jasongill 1y ago

It was actually almost 3 decades ago, making me feel extremely old - the period right at the end of '96 and into mid '97 when this was a popular way to cause mischief via IRC was truly a magical time

chasd00 1y ago
Death on flaxxen wings
anyfoo 1y ago
Hard to believe that during those times in IRC, you were used to automatically (and proudly) advertising your IP address, your exact client version, and the means for a direct connection to your client without any server in between (CTCP, literally “client-to-client protocol”). And all of that most often with no packet filter whatsoever, not even NAT, in between. Everything was plaintext, including “authentication”, which was (at best) just asking the “ident server” on the same machine as your client who you claimed to be, which was considered sufficient because, after all, to run identd on its “privileged” low port meant you were an “administrator” (i.e. root of a unix machine).
- sneak 1y ago
  CTCP messages still go through the server. DCC (direct client connection) are the p2p connections you are thinking of, but they of course don’t work behind nat. I was behind NAT when I first got on IRC in ‘98. I set it up with ipfwadm.
  - anyfoo 1y ago
    Ah you are right, I mixed CTCP and DCC up. The former was also used to set up the latter I think? (Among other things.) I joined IRC in the early 90s, there was no NAT then, packet filtering was uncommon, and practically nothing on the Internet was encrypted. It was a very different time.

driverdan 1y ago

When I was in college circa 2001 we used to prank each other with the ping of death and other crash exploits. Also random IPs on the college network when we were bored. It was crazy how long it was around for and how easy it was to exploit.