Re: 2.0.36 socket, sendto errors

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:17:10 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Somebody Withalastname wrote:

> Normally I wouldn't have noticed this, but since I have windows
> machines on my local net, I try to test them for attack vulnerability.
> Since I had just also setup a friends windows machine, we decided to
> test his to... Now I went to rootshell and got some standard attacks
> newtear.c for example. I could use them on this linux machine, my
> localnet's machines, but when attempting to test them on my friends
> machine accross the net. I got sendto Operation not permitted! Is this
> as a result of that obsecure attack fix, or just something else?

You need to be root to execute many of these attacks. Good thinking huh?

Cheers,
Alex.

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