Re: Nessus against Novell file servers.

From: Nathan R. Valentine (nathan_at_nathanvalentine.org)
Date: 03/14/05

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:49:31 -0500

    > Hello everybody,
    > I was doing a vulnerability assessment on a production using Nessus(Only non-dangerous plugins were enabled) and some of the Novell file servers went down. I was forced to stop the test.
    >
    > Have anyone experienced the Novell problem with Nessus? What can do to stop crashing these servers?

    In my experience, older version of Novell Netware had problems with one
    of the FTP plugins in Nessus. It has been a while but I believe that the
    test triggered a buffer overflow, even though it was a "safe" plugin,
    that then nuked the whole system. Double check my statements though as
    it has been a long time since I've run into that problem because the
    version of Netware was very old...3.x or 4.x I think. 

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