Re:

[Doug Nordwall]

not all the plugins that describe situations that cause DoS or hanging of a machine actually are able to do it, at least on any particular machine. I would suggest researching the particular vulnerabilities that you are interested in in the vulnerability repositories online. Often, a particular vendor will "fix" the problem by working around the problem in some fashion. Also, a DoS might not able to be reproduced by a single machine running nessus, but instead may require you to actually have several machines to duplicate the problem.

In essence, I would suggest just researching the problem more first. packetstorm or any of the vulnerability sites should be able to help.


On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 01:52 AM, Bishan Singh Kochar wrote:

hi

i recently used nessus with all plugins i.e. with risky plugins also...
but nessus didn't do anything which could crash or hang or dos attack...
i have a redhat 7.3 box and want to test whether nessus can really
crash or hang or spoil the performance of any box...
plz tell me something which can really crash or hang my windows or linux
or netbsd machine..
waiting for ur prompt reply

regards
bishan

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