On Wed Jun 29 2005 at 21:51, Erik Stephens wrote: > nessus output. My question: could running the teardrop test against > a host cause problems (e.g. packet loss) with a port scan against a > host in the same network? Looking at teardrop.nasl's source, I can't > tell how much network trouble it would cause.
Hard to tell without further details or experiments :-\ Maybe teardrop disrupts a network device, or trigger some automated defense in a filtering device. Another hypothesis is that it creates a "small" denial of service on the target - e.g. 100% CPU for a couple of seconds. In this case, by repeating the attack, you might take the host down. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
