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Article #2252Re: IOS exploit: please disclose vehicle, not mechanism
From: fugi
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:19
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:19
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In comp.dcom.sys.cisco Adrian Jensen <ad_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote: > Jeff C wrote: > [snip] >> >> Like you we placed the access-lists up nearly immeadately and as we have >> to opportunity to upgrade IOS we can remove them. One thing that I >> noticed is that I didn't get any hits. Have you noticed any hits on >> yours? >> > I've got an administrator friend at a local hosting company here. > Talking to him the other day, he is seeing 2 or 3 attempted exploits > (seemingly random atttacks) a day in their IP space. > As for the exploit code itself. I've seen it, downloaded it, compiled > it. It works as advertised, just a simple command line utility. Give it > the IP to attack and the proper TTL, you have to be just slightly > smarter than a script kiddie to use it. > Adrian no it doesn't, my code I posted on the day the advisory came out at 11:30pm was abused by someone who got it from a friend that wasn't supposed to give it away. hence the sending via PGP and the sentence "don't distribute this". mine calculated the ttl to send in the packet with a traceroute, and there was a field for "ttl padding". a number that represented a negative and positive offset to add accountability for the oops factor. that's what I get for writing user friendly code. > -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- > http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! > -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- -- The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.
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From: fugi <fugi@ultra.bl.org>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,ios.general,comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: IOS exploit: please disclose vehicle, not mechanism
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:19:02 -0000
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