Re: bug causes tcp/ip stack corruption

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 05:09:51 -0600 (CST)


On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > On all modem I know the ``+++'' string has to be preceeded and followed by
> > a second pause; the exact length is configurable. Since SLIP and PPP
> > packets are always longer than three bytes, this should not ever happen?
>
> You know that, I know that. Piles of crap modem makes apparently dont

I set up a web page to exploit/fix this bug that works with quite a few
modems. And it appears to affect a rather large percentage of modems.

http://waste.org/~oxymoron/pingpatch.cgi

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