Re: Port scan causing system crashes

[Death Star <deathstar2k3 () hotmail com>]

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NMAP port scan would also crash old MVS (IBM mainframe)systems. The 
problem I encountered in the past was the sockets opened by nmap to the 
MVS system stayed in the que which caused a performance problem on the 
system. The result was a system crash.
You would also experience the same thing on most legacy systems such as 
VMS.
The best way to resolve issues like this is to update your system, and if 
anything minimize the number of threads being probed by nmap using a timer 
(nmap -T polite -v -sTU XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX )
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> Hello
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> Please can you help?  Has any-one else out there had issues with NMAP 
port scans
> (or any other port scanner) causing systems to crash?
>
> I use Nessus to baseline the security of our systems and have twice had 
problems
> caused by the NMAP port scan on clustered unix boxes running our 
enterprise
> applications.  NOTE - it was the initial port scan that caused the 
problems, not
> the subsequent vulnerability assessment.
> I've done a quick Google search and found confirmation for one of the 
systems -
> BUGTRAQ Vulnerability 3358, "IBM HACMP Port Scan Denial of Service 
Vulnerability",
> the other was a bespoke app running on some HP UX boxes.
>
> Does any-one know of other systems that fall over with a simple port scan?
>
> Up til now I've been running port scans happily across our subnets to 
look for
> rogue FTP, SMTP, HTTP etc, obviously I'll have to take more care now...
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Steve
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