Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 16:58:43 -0700
From: "Jan B. Koum" <jkb@BEST.COM.>
To: [email protected]Subject: Nifty DoS in Foundry networks gear.
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:
[email protected]#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
