full-disclosure - Re: Should nmap cause a DoS on cisco routers?

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Message-Id: <31B424C2-9DA1-4465-8D87-66B48C475273@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:35:42 -0700
From: bk <chort0@...il.com>
To: Shang Tsung <stsung@...l.com>,
 full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Cc: pen-test@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Should nmap cause a DoS on cisco routers?

On Jul 9, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) wrote:

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> Hi there:
> 
> 	Once again, this is Dario Ciccarone with the Cisco PSIRT. This
> email's purpose is to provide our conclusions on the investigation we
> performed on this issue. 
> 
> <snip>
> 	Second, this *is* indeed a vulnerability on Cisco IOS that *can
> be
> triggered* by an nmap scan. But before everyone run to the nearest
> Linux box to run an nmap scan against their neighbor's network and
> attempts to trigger it: this is a *known* and *previously publicly
> disclosed* vulnerability, for which the Cisco PSIRT published an
> advisory back in 2004:

Handy flow chart for handling possible bug discoveries:
http://www.smtps.net/images/i-think-i-found-a-bug.jpg

(I'm sure this will come back to haunt me at some point)

--
chort

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