Great Circle Associates Firewalls
(May 1994)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: more on TIS portscan and Cisco routers
From: Marty Lyons <marty @ CERF . NET>
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 17:47:44 -0700 (PDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Message-Id: <199405090549 . BAA28759 @ bedrock . cs . UMD . EDU>

> Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 01:49:19 -0400
> From: reh @
 cs .
 UMD .
 EDU (Richard Huddleston)
> Message-Id: <199405090549 .
 BAA28759 @
 bedrock .
 cs .
 UMD .
 EDU>
> Subject: more on TIS portscan and Cisco routers
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> ...and (unless you know about this already) you might think that a
> connection attempt from IP_3 would get refused.  Well it will -- unless
> you pass {2,4,6,9}006 as argv[2] to the telnet command.  In those cases,
> the router will happily give a "password:" prompt to anybody.

I tried to duplicate this on two seperate Ciscos, with no success.
One is a 3000 running 9.1(10), and the other a 4000 running 9.14(5).
What versions were you running that exhibited this behavior?

/Marty



References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Re: Firewall Administrator (lack o'trust)
From: sangster @ reston . ans . net (Paul Sangster)
Next: Wellfleet Routers as Firewalls
From: "Gregory J. Donaldson" <itsmgjd @ nebula . syscon . hii . com>
Indexed By Thread Previous: more on TIS portscan and Cisco routers
From: reh @ cs . UMD . EDU (Richard Huddleston)
Next: Re: more on TIS portscan and Cisco routers
From: reh @ cs . UMD . EDU (Richard Huddleston)

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com