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Do anyone remember which kind of bug this was?

• gvb 12y ago
  Sending a packet that exceeded the 65535 byte maximum packet size (via fragmentation and reassembly). This would cause a reassembly buffer overflow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death
  • yuhong 12y ago
    I am talking about the exact bug talked about in the article I linked.
    • bcbrown 12y ago
      Given that it exposed a bug in a driver Larry wrote, years before the OS was released, likely only Larry knows what the bug was.