BMC Patrol UDP flood denial of service
| bmc-patrol-udp-dos (4291) |  Low Risk |
Description:
BMC Patrol is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack by flooding the UDP port. The UDP port accepts connection requests, allowing a remote attacker to send ping-pong requests from another UDP port (such as chargen) to flood the UDP port, causing it to stop responding.
Platforms Affected:
- BMC, Patrol Agent 3.25
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- BMC Web site, B2B solutions for ebusiness systems management at http://www.bmc.com/.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:46:33 +0200, Patrol Security bugs at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/1999_2/0092.html.
- BID-1879: BMC Patrol UDP Bounce Attack Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-1999-0921: BMC Patrol allows any remote attacker to flood its UDP port, causing a denial of service.
Reported:
Apr 09, 1999
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