Re: DoS bug on Tru64

[Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Bob Dog <bobdog () drunk co nz> said:
> --- ellipse <elliptic () cipherpunks com> wrote:
> > > Today we were using nmap to scan our network and when we scanned our
> > > Tru64 machines, telnet and ftp froze and timed out. We could not make
> > > any connections to those ports and existing connections froze. New
> > > connections were denied for about a minute after the scan was finished.
> > > I've checked with Compaq and on Securityfocus and neither place has any
> > > knowledge of this.
> > [...]
> > > nmap -T Polite -O -p 23,139 -oM /tmp/lst 'xxx.xxx.16-44.*'
> >
> > Why does this sound so familiar?  Would this not be an issue with inetd?  

It wouldn't be with inetd (since the original poster said his existing
connections froze as well).

> Support for 4.0D went away as of about September of '01.
> Does anyone know if this is an issues with 5.1?
> Have no box that I want to test this with.

I tried this against my 5.1A test box and didn't have any problem.
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Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.