Livingston Portmaster Crasher (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 1997 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time t92275tt shaped the electrons to say...
>I happened to find a malicious cracking program named "pmcrash".
>This program says in the header as follows.
>> /*
>> The following code will crash ANY Livingston PortMaster.
>> It telnets the the portmaster and overflows its buffers.
>> */

Oh, pmcrash, how quaint...

This won't work on anything after ComOS 3.1.4, which is a year and a half
old now. And it never worked the way it claims to. Most of what it did
was smoke and mirrors, and it was really tripping over a problem in the
telnet interface. Something you could do by hand just by telnetting to
the box and then sending a break. An old, forgotten feature from way, way
back. It was yanked when we were reminded of it.

-MZ

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