151 Microsoft Windows chargen service tcp detection Misc 2004/09/06 Marc Ruef marc dot ruef at computec dot ch http://www.computec.ch computec.ch Marc Ruef marc dot ruef at computec dot ch http://www.computec.ch computec.ch 2004/11/13 1.1 Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.1 tcp 19 open|sleep|close|pattern_exists ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 80 Attention, this plugin may use an enormous amount of ressources! Chargen TCP service Other services Configuration The remote host is running the chargen service. This service returns automaticly generated data for every connection. The chargen service is unused these days, so it is strongly advised that you disable it, as it may be used by attackers to set up denial of services attacks against this host. The server should be deactivated or de-installed if not necessary. Under Unix systems, comment out the 'echo' line in /etc/inetd.conf and restart the inetd process. To make it harder to find the server the daemon could be configured to listen at another port (e.g. 809). Try to prevent unwanted connection attempts by filtering traffic with firewalling. Alternation of the application banner can confuse an attacker and let him determine the wrong software. Approx. 15 minutes Yes Yes Yes Low 8 9 4 6 Low All well-known security scanners are able to do a similar check. CVE-1999-0103 10043 Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 http://www.computec.ch