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Re: Handspring Visor D.O.S

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger H. Goun)
Thu Jan 10 18:55:34 2002

From: "Roger H. Goun" <roger@bcah.com>
To: Jason Lutz <jason@spis.net>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 09:31, Jason Lutz wrote:
> Problem:
> 
>     The handspring Visor seems to have problems dealing with an nmap scan:
> 
> Exploit:
> 
>    bash-2.04# nmap ip address of visor | This causes a Fatal Exception on
> the palm device.

Confirmed. It's the TCP connect() scan type that knocks it over. It
seems to survive SYN, FIN, and UDP scans.

-- Roger

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