Full Disclosure: Re: Should nmap cause a DoS on cisco routers?

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

Agreed completely on don't panic.



On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:30 PM, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>  
wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Lee wrote:
>
> > so presumably the scan came from a network that had full access to  
> > the routers.
> One question is whether or not the network in question *should* have  
> full access to the management plane of the routers.
>
> ;>
>
> > That's a bit harder to defend against.
>
> Sure, but also note that CoPP, HWRL, and the like can help,  
> depending upon the platform.
>
> Don't get me wrong; this should be investigated further, and PSIRT  
> are on it.  My point is that folks don't need to go into panic mode,  
> but should educate themselves as to how to defend their network  
> infrastructure against attack and then deploy the relevant BCPs.
>
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