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Dec 12 9:30 AM EST

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To: JC Jaros who wrote (52651)	12/2/2000 7:05:25 PM
From: DiViT	of 74651

DoS alarm sounded over server flaw Known as a resource-deprivation attack, Internet data sent in a certain way could cause servers to crash under an artificial avalanche of data. [snip] The flaw affects Microsoft's Windows NT, Novell, Solaris, and Linux servers as well as Windows 9x and Me. Windows 2000 is not affected. BindView notified Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) of the problem in June and submitted an advisory to the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University in October. Both organizations released alerts on Thursday. "A lot of attention was paid, during the course of Windows 2000 development, to these sorts of network robustness issues," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's Security Response Center. "This is a place where that attention to detail paid off." [snip] zdnet.com

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