Nessus kills FLEXlm

Nelson, C.M. cmn at leicester.ac.uk
Tue Dec 7 04:49:04 EST 2004


We have found that licence managers based on FLEXlm, running on Windows
servers, can reliably be killed using Nessus. I have found only one
related reference; port scanning FLEXlm causing it to utilise 100% CPU:
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.gateway&
p=43&pf=586.

Has anyone else seen this or had contrary experience?    

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Carl Nelson
Distributed Systems Support Section, Computer Centre, University of
Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2060, Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5027



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