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Advisory for TopLayer's layer 7 switches
From: User nawk <nawk () real-secure com>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 09:30:45 -0400
Hi, I have been testing the TopLayer 2500 layer 7 switch, which can be found at www.toplayer.com. From what I was testing so far the switch looked to do great things. It even suppose to have security features to prevent DoS from icmp to other IP based filtering. I decided to do a little more testing on the switch itself and I found something very disturbing. It looks as if you send icmp with some bad IP versions, fragmented packets, IP option packets and bad icmp checksum, it will crash the switch in a heart beat. Also if you do this a few times, the switch is died as in needs to be replaced. I had the TopLayer engineers look at this problem and they now realize this is a very serious problem. I used the latest version of there software. If anyone is using this product call your rep. As to date there is no fix. Thank you nawk www.real-secure.com " Are you real secure? "
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