ascend kill

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http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=10019

Category:	Denial of Service
Title:	Ascend Kill
Summary:	Crashes an ascend router
Description:	It was possible to make the remote Ascend router reboot by sending it a UDP packet containing special data on port 9 (discard). An attacker may use this flaw to make your router crash continuously, preventing your network from working properly. Solution : filter the incoming UDP traffic coming to port 9. Contact Ascend for a solution.

http://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=9

Port(s)	Protocol	Service	Details	Source
9	tcp,udp	Discard	Discard server – this protocol is only installed on machines for test purposes. The service listening at this port (both TCP and UDP) simply discards any input. See also: [RFC863], CVE-1999-0060 Intrusions: Ascend kill This exploit kills Ascend routers by sending them a specially formatted malformed TCP packet. On certain versions of the Ascend operating system, the router can be forced to cause an internal error, resulting in the router rebooting.	SG
9	tcp,udp		Discard (official)	Wikipedia
9	tcp,udp	discard	Discard [RFC4960] [RFC4340]	IANA
9	tcp,udp	discard	Discard	SANS
9	tcp,udp	discard	sink null	Nmap

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Discard Protocol

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc863

This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community.  Hosts onthe ARPA Internet that choose to implement a Discard Protocol areexpected to adopt and implement this standard. A useful debugging and measurement tool is a discard service. A discard service simply throws away any data it receives.TCP Based Discard Service   One discard service is defined as a connection based application on   TCP.  A server listens for TCP connections on TCP port 9.  Once a   connection is established any data received is thrown away.  No   response is sent.  This continues until the calling user terminates   the connection.UDP Based Discard Service   Another discard service is defined as a datagram based application on   UDP.  A server listens for UDP datagrams on UDP port 9.  When a   datagram is received, it is thrown away.  No response is sent.