-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OSIRIS Open Systems Incident Response and Investigation Strategies _________________________________________________________________ ***OSIRIS CRITICAL ALERT*** - PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY _________________________________________________________________ ALERT NUMBER: o089842 DATE: August 8, 1998 _________________________________________________________________ ***EXECUTIVE SUMMARY*** LIST: TCP/IP PLATFORM: Annex terminal servers from xylogics(bay). THREAT: Ping attacks with more than 64 characters in the host name will result in a Denial of service and system crash on these system. Also, two or more consecutive land attacks will freeze the system by utilizing the CPU resources. VULNERABILITY: Annex terminal servers from BAY are vulnerable. The consecutive land attack only needs a simple shell script that execute the land attack several times. IMPACT: The Annex terminal servers will crash. FIX: NONE SOURCE: BUGTRAQ KEYWORDS: - ---------- DETAILS. . . Further Information is available at: osiris@infosectechnologies.com ________________________________________________________________ - - OSIRIS is a service of OSIRIS Partners, LLP - - OSIRIS subscribers may contact the OSIRIS team by e-mail at osiris@versalink.com. - - The OSIRIS team, in partnership with InfoSEC Technologies provides on-site response assistance in the event of a security incident. For information e-mail info@infosectechnologies.com. - - For emergency response send a brief (140 or fewer characters) e-mail message to: pageprs@versalink.com. - - On site Intrusion Management and incident investigation training is provided in cooperation with the Computer Security Institute. For information e-mail: psalaway@mfi.com. =========================================================== Nan Poulios http://www.infosectechnologies.com 248-650-2699 248-375-2315 - FAX For my PGP Public Key: http://www.infosectechnologies.com/keys/np-pgp.htm =========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.2 iQA/AwUBNcxKpkMSkfNGu+BjEQImtACfcM+keSGnmRr0d9LJ5Kdm32XnCzMAoL2H gEskxwpKTbRErUB4+fYWjVQk =3nbt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----