Subject firebird & nessus
Author Nick Upson
Hi

firebird 2.1 centos, I have systems in a company who are scanning with nessus and this causes the firebird log below. Although they do not have access to the database I'm concerned what is happening. Has anyone seen this before? Can I avoid it?


gaxgpap345vu    Sun Jul 12 17:27:11 2015
        INET/inet_error: read errno = 104


gaxgpap345vu    Sun Jul 12 17:27:14 2015
        *** DUMP ***


gaxgpap345vu    Sun Jul 12 17:27:14 2015
        Tag=-1 Offset=13 Length=26 Eof=0



gaxgpap345vu    Sun Jul 12 17:27:14 2015
        Clump 1 at offset 0: SCAN CHECK<04>


gaxgpap345vu    Sun Jul 12 17:27:14 2015
        Fatal exception during clumplet dump: Invalid clumplet buffer structure: buffer end before end of clumplet - clumplet too long


gaxgpap345vu    Sun Jul 12 17:27:14 2015
        Plain dump starting with offset 13: <0a>nessusscan<06><00>

Nick Upson, Telensa Ltd, Senior Operations Network Engineer
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