20 Dec
2021
20 Dec
'21
7:26 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 22:45:06 +0000, Steven Champeon said:
Are there even enough dialup connections and ancient modems left that POD is a thing anyone needs to worry about?
It wasn't just dialup and modems. The Ping of Death had to do with sending a packet that was already 64K in size, that would require an ICMP response that would try to include the entire packet - corrupting the memory following the buffer the response was built in. Lots of ethernet-connected Windows systems got BSOD'd that way. Having said that, I'm sure there's still unpatched systems out there. Probably a few that are *still* unpatched against the 1990s IPV4 version, but a lot more likely for the 2013 and 2020 IPv6 versions against Microsoft systems.