Re: Linux Slapper Worm and Linksys

["Johannes Ullrich" <jullrich () euclidian com>]

James Williams" <jwilliams () mail wtamu edu> wrote:

> Has anybody heard of or seen the Slapper worm DoS a Linksys SOHO router
> out of commission? A co-worker whose machine had been infected over the
> weekend had his linksys router die over the same period that his box had
> been infected with the worm. I know that Nimda had a similar affect on
> the Cisco 67x Series ADSL routers running a certain firmware revision and
> I was wondering if the Slapper had a similar affect with the Linksys SOHO
> routers.

The slapper worm can generate a lot of udp traffic while chatting
with its peers. This could just clock the line or overload one
of the smaller routers.


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