Land

Description

The Land attack results an attacked system to spend most or all of the available CPU time in its TCP/IP-stack.

Affected Systems

Below partial list of affected systems, see http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtaq/1997_4/0380.html for more information.

Operating SystemVersionVelnerability Status
AIX 3 YES
AIX 3.2, 4, 4.1, 4.2.1 NO
BSDI 2.0, 2.1 (vanilla) YES
BSDI 2.1 (K210-021,K210-022,K210-024), 3.0 NO
DG/UX R4.12 NO
Digital UNIX 3.2c, 4.0 NO
FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE, 2.2.2-RELEASENO
FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE, 2.2.5-STABLE, 3.0-CURRENTYES
HP-UX 9.03, 10.01, 10.20 NO
IRIX 5.2, 5.3 YES
IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 NO
Linux 1.2.13, 2.1.65, 2.0.30 NO
NetBSD 1.1, 1.2, 1.2a, 1.2.1, 1.3_ALPHAYES
OpenBSD 2.2 NO
Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6NO
SunOS 4.1.3, 4.1.4 YES
Windows 95 vanilla, Winsock 2+VIPUPD.EXE YES
Windows NT 4.0, 4.0+SP3, 4.0+SP3+simptcp-fix YES

Fix

Microsoft Windows NT 3.51

Apply the following hotfix provided by Microsoft: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/NT351/hotfixes-postSP5/teardrop2-fix/

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Apply the following hotfix provided by Microsoft: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/NT40/hotfixes-postSP3/teardrop2-fix/

Others

Contact vendor of the operating system.
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