Oh, if THAT happened I'd break out the machete and lob off BOTH of his/her
hands!!! ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig I. Hagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 5:35 PM
To: Chris Brenton
Cc: Burgess, Jeff; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: NICs and Protocols
> Could you expand on this a bit? I'm not sure under what conditions
> packets could "leak" when the OS has no protocols bound in order to
> receive packets let alone decode them and pass them along. An example of
> how an attacker could do this would be very cool.
i'm thinking due to user error on the part of the sysadmin -- someone sees
an
interface and says "hmm..., i need xxxx" and forgets that there is a good
reason why that interface was not configured.
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