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Comment by vgb2k11

8 years ago

User ruytlm has posted links to hacker factor blog, and it seems some sophisticated scanners (e.g., Eddie) were crashed by the exploit. In that blog the author postulates that Eddie is a nation-state level (not script kiddie) scanner, so I'd say that the answer to this question will be in your definition of naive. It's tempting to qualify any scanner which crashes on this as naive though, I'd agree. Especially moving forward with the publicity of this post/topic.

Well actually from memory the author of the blog was doubtful if this exploit actually crashed Eddie or not, but it did crash the other bots (Eddie V1 did go offline, possibly as a crash), so it would appear you are correct. Only truely naive bots might well be affected by this.