Re: nikto, n-stealth can crash the web-server?

[Christoph Puppe <puppe () hisolutions com>]

Salve Matthias,

it sometimes happens, that a scan craches a service. This can happen with
any type of scann. If a service is not robust enough to withstand a simple
scann, take it down and replace it with something more trustworthy.

The reasing behind this is easy, if you can crash it, everybody can crash
it. A internet deployed service should be able to survive some scans.

Matthias Heinrich wrote:

> Hello to all,
>
>  
> I'm trying to find out if web-scanners like n-stealth or nikto can crash the
> web-server and why. By searching in the scan-db of nikto I found no tests
> that could cause a buffer overflow or DoS. Maybe the flooding of requests
> itself can cause the server to crash?!
>
> When you ever had the experience that one of the scanners has crashed a
> server I would really like to know which test has caused that. When I'm
> going to test the productive web-servers I must be very sure they are still
> available for the users of the web-applications. 
>
> By the way, is there any comparison available for both scanners? They really
> seem to be very similar in what they do?!
>  
>
> Thanx, Maze
>
>
>
>
>
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