Re: SYMSA-2007-007: Palm OS Treo Smartphone Denial of Service
> On a side note, when I was testing this vulnerability, I tried
> varying the size of the ICMP packet. Strangely enough, I got no response
> if the packet was of size 1469 bytes, or 1471 bytes. There must be
> something special about 1470 byte ICMP packets. Anyone have any ideas?
>
Something about fragmentation maybe? Maybe just on the cusp where it
expects another packet with the continuation and doesn't get it, or
gets the continuation but doesn't expect it?
Tuc/TBOH