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From: Johannes Ullrich (jullrich_at_euclidian.com)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 10:51:47 CDT

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    James Williams" <jwilliamsmail.wtamu.edu> wrote:

    > Has anybody heard of or seen the Slapper worm DoS a Linksys SOHO router
    > out of commission? A co-worker whose machine had been infected over the
    > weekend had his linksys router die over the same period that his box had
    > been infected with the worm. I know that Nimda had a similar affect on
    > the Cisco 67x Series ADSL routers running a certain firmware revision and
    > I was wondering if the Slapper had a similar affect with the Linksys SOHO
    > routers.

    The slapper worm can generate a lot of udp traffic while chatting
    with its peers. This could just clock the line or overload one
    of the smaller routers. 

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