Some 3Com customers using TippingPoint intrusion prevention appliances found themselves with trouble on their hands last week; the company says the problem lay in the now-patched software. <\/p>\n
Mysterious Web attack traffic caused some of 3Com Corp.’s TippingPoint IPS devices to crash last week, requiring a hasty patch by the company.<\/p>\n
Some TippingPoint customers had their IPS (intrusion prevention system) appliances crash while trying to process a specific kind of Internet attack traffic last week.<\/p>\n
The company learned of the problem on Friday and issued an update for the TOS (TippingPoint OS) software within hours, said Laura Craddick, TippingPoint’s public relations manager.<\/p>\n
“A bug in the TippingPoint engine caused high CPU utilization?on a few of our customers’ Internet-facing devices,” Craddick wrote in an e-mail response to questions from eWEEK. The bug affected TippingPoint devices running TippingPoint OS 2.1 and 2.2, she wrote.<\/p>\n
At York University in Toronto, TippingPoint IPS devices began crashing repeatedly on Friday, Jan. 13, prompting a call to the vendor, said Ramon Kagan of the University’s Computing and Network Services department.<\/p>\n
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