Nessus Plugin #17155

Plugin Index

Note: This file has been created from a downloaded version of the Nessus Plugins from http://www.nessus.org/. Therefore, the information here can be outdated.

Connect back to SOCKS4 server

Family:

Denial of Service

Category:

attack

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

Summary:

Connect back to SOCKS4 proxy

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Cve_id:

-

Bugtraq_id:

-

Xrefs:

-

Description:

It was possible to connect to the SOCKS4 server
through itself.
This allow anybody to saturate the proxy CPU, memory or
file descriptors.

Solution: reconfigure your proxy so that it refuses connections to itself
Risk factor : Medium