Microsoft has published the corresponding portion of monthly security patches for August 2011, and the bugs fixed include a vulnerability which became popular in the 1990s, called 'Ping of death'.
The vulnerability is labeled as "CVE-2011-1871? and is similar to a discovered in 1996 known as the 'ping of death', when an attack with heavy ICMP packets managed to block the system with the blue screen of death and the restart of the computer."
This vulnerability does not only affect Windows, also to others such as Unix, Linux and Mac. was patched in all of them and it was assumed that it did not affect operating systems modern.
It is not known if the new bug is the same 'Ping of Death' and has been incorporated in any software development process or if it is a variant of the original. In any case it is important to update your system with the patch provided by Microsoft that affects Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
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