Nessus Plugin #11905

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Checkpoint Firewall-1 UDP denial of service

Family:

Denial of Service

Category:

flood

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Michel Arboi

Summary:

Flood the target with incorrect UDP packets

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Cve_id:

-

Bugtraq_id:

1419

Xrefs:

-

Description:

The machine (or a router on the way) crashed when it was flooded by
incorrect UDP packets.
This attack was known to work against Firewall-1 3.0, 4.0 or 4.1

An attacker may use this flaw to shut down this server, thus
preventing you from working properly.

Solution : if this is a FW-1, enable the antispoofing rule

otherwise, contact your software vendor for a patch.

Risk factor : High