RE: Nessus against Novell file servers.

From: Gonenc, Ozan (ogonenc@adga.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 10:43:28 EST


Hi John,

I have noticed Nessus to detect ports open to later report them as being closed, but not to the point that crashes the server itself.

I believe it may have to do with the service running at: 40193/tcp (Novell Netware IP). Sending random packets to this port may cause the server to crash according to information available ala Google.

Ozan

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Ozan Gonenc
IT Security Specialist
AEPOS Technologies Corporation
http://www.aepos.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Thomas [mailto:mjohn2000_99@yahoo.com]
Sent: March 12, 2005 04:49
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Nessus against Novell file servers.

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?

Thanks in advance

John



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