Haven't worked with AIX since ver 4(ish) but I think there were some
specific issues with either HACMP or maybe SNMP and nessus. Anything about
this server that is different from the others?
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From: nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org
[mailto:nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org] On Behalf Of
novaki@agmen-software.com
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:06 AM
To: nessus@list.nessus.org
Subject: nessus crashes AIX
Hi,
When I've tested our AIX 5.1 server with nessus 2.2, it
started to slow down (maximum processor usage, and IO usage)
and twenty minutes later it stopped responding. After the
reboot, we found out that the system crashed because of the
swap space was full, so this is like a memory leak or an
unwanted DoS attack triggered by Nessus.
We investigated the problem, and found out that the only tests
that can cause the crash is:
rpc_portmap.nasl, or
find_service.nes
The interesting thing here is that we already scanned a lot of
other AIX 5.1 servers without errors (using nessus 2.0, and
also 2.2). This is the only system which we have troubles with.
Has anyone experienced such problems with AIX before? Is there
any way to find out what the problem was (we don't want to
crash the server anymore)?
Any help would be appriciated.
--
Szilard
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