COMMAND
Foundry
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Foundry networks gear
PROBLEM
Jan B. Koum found following. Running tcp nmap scan against
Foundry network gear make it go boom. What makes it more sad is
that Foundry is in the networking business -- they route packets.
They don't make toasters which get it's tcp/ip stack written by a
recent CS grad. Anyway, the version which reboots after simple
"nmap <host>" is:
telnet@XXX.mail#sh ver
SW: Version 05.0.94T13 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
Compiled on Jun 8 1999 at 15:46:09 labeled as N8R05094
HW: NetIron Gigabit Switching Router, serial number 01a5a4
200 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
[.. snip ..]
Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
The system uptime is 1 minutes 47 seconds
This is NetIron series -- not sure about other hardware...
Valentin Beck made test too and it was able to reproduced it:
telnet@something>sh ver
SW: Version 05.0.03T12 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
Compiled on Jun 29 1999 at 10:56:44 labeled as SLB05003
HW: ServerIron Switch, serial number 02bb34
240 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
[bla bla bla]
Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
The system uptime is 1 days 8 hours 41 minutes 6 seconds
System was running normally while nmapping, and crashed a few
minutes later...
SOLUTION
Jan notified Foundry, but they do not seem to be able to reproduce
the problem themself (he also wasn't able to crash a foundry on
LAN running 05.0.02T13 version of their software).