Description
NukeNabber allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the NukeNabber port (1080) without sending any data, which causes the CPU usage to rise to 100% from the report.exe program that is executed upon the connection.
References
- http://www.dynamsol.com/puppet/text/new.txt
- 19981107 Re: various *lame* DoS attacks mailing-list
- 19981105 various *lame* DoS attacks mailing-list
- nukenabber-timeout-dos(1540) vdb-entry