Re: (ASCEND) Packet filter for port 9 attack

[Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>]

At 07:02 AM 3/17/98 -0800, Kit Knox wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Matt Holdrege wrote:
>
>| Check out http://www.ascend.com/2694.html for details.
>| More to come.
>
>The page doesn't mention why Ascend has been sitting on this bug after
>being notified of it ahead of time.  Apparently security is not a priority
>at Ascend.  It only took two years of me harassing Ascend to get the
>default SNMP behavior changed.  They just didn't bother to fix the UDP DoS
>attack.

We don't beleive we were notified. Supposedly SNI contacted us long ago
about a security issue, but never provided anymore details despite our
request for more info.

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