On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:52:26AM -0700, kavitha reddy wrote: > very recently i bought openBSD 4.2 (pack of 3CD's).Now, as a part of my > research work iam interested to know whether it is possible to show DoS > attacks in openBSD 4.1 .If so let me know how can that be possible.As u said > when a patch added to openBSD 4.2 , prevents remote DoS attacks.How can this > be tested.
A good place to begin your research would be the errata page for OpenBSD 4.1, which lists all the critical patches that were made to this release. http://openbsd.org/errata41.html In particular, look carefully at all the entries that say either "SECURITY FIX" or "RELIABILITY FIX". I hope this helps, -Ryan
