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Nifty DoS in Foundry networks gear.
From: jkb () BEST COM (Jan B. Koum)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 16:58:43 -0700
Running tcp nmap scan against Foundry network gear make it go boom. What makes it more sad is that Foundry is in the networking business -- they route packets. They don't make toasters which get it's tcp/ip stack written by a recent CS grad. Anyway, the version I have which reboots after simple "nmap <host>" is: telnet () XXX mail#sh ver SW: Version 05.0.94T13 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc. Compiled on Jun 8 1999 at 15:46:09 labeled as N8R05094 HW: NetIron Gigabit Switching Router, serial number 01a5a4 200 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM 16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975 2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX [.. snip ..] Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00) The system uptime is 1 minutes 47 seconds This is NetIron series -- not sure about other hardware... I notified Foundry two weeks ago -- but they do not seem to be able to reproduce the problem themself (I also wasn't able to crash a foundry on our LAN running 05.0.02T13 version of their software). -- Yan
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