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Re: 85.85.85.85 weirdness


From: pb () GROLIER FR (Pascal Bouchareine)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:23:00 +0200


just my $0.01 but :

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:37:49PM -0600, Wozz wrote:
Anyone have any idea what I might be seeing here?  I just turned up an NFR
probe at Exodus in DC, and I'm seeing all sorts of traffic as follows

NFR:                dc-probefe
Source:             85.85.85.85
Destination:        85.85.85.85

0x55555555 as a source ip.

Type of attack:     Land

triggered because of the short size/buggy pointers, i guess.

Protocol:           6
Src Port:           21845
DST Port:           21845

21845, which is 0x5555. fun. this information is not interesting to you,
as i bet this is a (buggy) "0x55 frame" and doesn't have anything to do with
85.85.85.85 or a land attack. anyway, the bug's still there.

ICMP Type:          0
ICMP Code:          0
Packet:

E\\x00\\x02`\\xc6\\x01@\\x00\\xff\\x06\\xd7\\xf6UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

U is 0x55, confirmed. you have a memset'ed area of 0x55. is it at the
network level, or at the "bpf" level ?

My probe is sitting in front of my firewall box, and when I do a tcpdump on
my firewall searching for any of these packets, nothing comes up.  The only
thing I can figure is that this is some sort of weird packet thats being
misinterpreted by NFR.  Perhaps some sort of ethernet broadcast being used
by Exodus's Foundry VLAN's?

are you sure your firewall doesn't filter these packets before passing
them to the packet capture interface ?

this sounds like a strange memory corruption, at the ethernet level
or at the NFR level.. very interesting :)

Just curious if anyone else has seen anything like this on an NFR system or
otherwise.

i never had this *kind* of things.

--
Kalou.

((void(*)())(char[]){0x31, 0xdb, 0x31, 0xc0, 0xb0, 0x01, 0xcd, 0x80})();



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