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Re: Two birds with one worm.


From: "Mike Lewinski" <mike () rockynet com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:05:22 -0600

It looks like the "Code Red" worm has the added side effect of
crashing
Cisco (675/678) DSL CPEs running any CBOS prior to 2.4.1. The GET it
sends
looking for IIS servers hardlocks any modem with the web management
interface enabled.

FYI.... I believe we're seeing secondary effects on other higher-end
Cisco's (i.e. 7500's)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lewinski" <mike () rockynet com>
To: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: Code Red -> Router Memory depletion?


We've seen two routers experiencing problems this AM that appear to be
related to client swervers infected with the IIS Code Red virus. I say
appear because of the timing with cpu profiles on downstream routers
where infections broke out, but I don't have any direct evidence.

The first one was a border router:

Jul 19 08:00:47 5093: 2w5d: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of
65540 bytes failed from 0x603BF35C, pool Processor, alignment 0
Jul 19 08:00:47 5094: -Process= "BGP Router", ipl= 0, pid= 86

# sh ver
uptime is 4 hours, 46 minutes
System returned to ROM by bus error at PC 0x603BFCFC, address
0xFFFFFFF0
at 05:57:21 UTC Thu Jul 19 2001

The other one is a client aggregation router

Jul 19 12:02:49 192: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1964
bytes
failed from 0x314DA4A, pool Processor, alignment 0
Jul 19 12:02:49 193: -Process= "OSPF Router", ipl= 0, pid= 32

(This router is still functioning, but not allowing any incoming
connections on telnet).

-Mike




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