[11289] in bugtraq
Re: Nifty DoS in Foundry networks gear.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan B. Koum)
Fri Aug 6 17:21:38 1999
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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 19:53:47 -0700
Reply-To: "Jan B. Koum" <jkb@BEST.COM>
From: "Jan B. Koum" <jkb@BEST.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <19990802165843.A6684@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Mon,
Aug 02, 1999 at 04:58:43PM -0700
It seem I am not able to re-produce the problem any more. So...
sorry and never mind. I'll go sit in the corner now.
-- Yan
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:58:43PM -0700, "Jan B. Koum " <jkb> wrote:
>
> 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
