Josh Zlatin-Amishav wrote:
> miscflood.nasl sends a string of 65535 X's 10 times to the open port and
> then checks if the service that was listening is still responsive.
In reality that means
a> the service has been crashed by Nessus. This is a bug with the
service and should be fixed
b> the service noticed the DoS against it and shut itself down for some
period of time. This is a feature (not a bug) that you should be aware
of and
appreciate what that means WRT guaranteed service
--
Cheers
Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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