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

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Thierry Zoller wrote:

> If a device crashes when being scanned - it's a vulnerability.
It sounds to me as if what happened was that he ended up driving the CPUs of the devices in question to 100%, and they 
stopped handling control-plane traffic and fell over.  There are infrastructure self-protection best current practices 
(BCPs) which can be deployed to defend against infrastructure-targeted DoS.

I've only seen this happen a few hundred times or so, so I could be wrong, of course.

;>

As the original poster posited:

> Is this a configuration error of the networking devices?
The answer is, almost assuredly, "Yes."

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