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Nmap Hackers: Re: <OFFTOPIC??> nmap -sT scan freezes HP-UX server ???

Re: <OFFTOPIC??> nmap -sT scan freezes HP-UX server ???

From: Olaf Selke <Olaf.Selke_at_mediaWays.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 18:36:20 +0100 (MET)

According to Agustin Navarro:
> %nmap -sT -O -p 1-1024 -n -m nmaplog.txt XXX.YYY.*.*
>
>
> The next day, the people from the field operations department told me that the
> scan had caused the HP-UX servers to freeze but could not explain why this could
> have happened.
>
>
> My questions: Is it reasonable to expect something like this to happen ? Have
> any of you heard anything like this before ??

in 12/98 and 01/99 there've been several postings on the bugtraq
mailinglist that nmap crashed something. Browsing through the
archives on http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq you'll find a posting
related to your hp-ux problem which I've attached for your
convenience. To make it more worse, you can crash Cisco IOS 12.X with
nmap -sU -p514 <router>. That's what happened to me as a used nmap the
first time.

Olaf

-- 
Olaf Selke, olaf.selke_at_mediaways.net, voice +49 5241 80-7069
According to Sherwood Botsford:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Fyodor wrote:
> 
> = I have just released version 2.00 of nmap, a program for network
> = security auditing and general Internet exploration.  Almost all of the
> = core code has been rewritten for better performance and accuracy, and
> = many new features have been added.  Here are some of its current
> = capabilities:
> 
> Hi.  Any idea why most of my hosts running HPUX 10.10 crashed
> during a local network scan with
> nmap -O
I reproducible crashed Cisco routers running IOS version 12.0(1) 
with nmap -sU.
Olaf
Received on Feb 06 1999
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