[20157] in bugtraq
Re: multiple vulnerabilities in Alcatel Speed Touch DSL modems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Perrine)
Wed Apr 11 15:04:30 2001
Message-ID: <200104110624.XAA28364@lart>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:24:14 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU>
From: Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU>
X-To: gerrie@hit2000.org
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <JAELIHMNHFCGGEEDIHNDOELACAAA.gerrie@hit2000.org>
We were not interested in denial of service issues, only software
flaws that permit an abuser to take control of or modify the device.
Then we became interested in the EXPERT mode that cannot be turned
off.
Lots of stupid things can't handle weird packets.
--tep
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