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Re: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noah Parker)
Wed Jan 22 15:33:19 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:28:59 -0500
From: Noah Parker <noah@vayuweb.com>
Reply-To: noah@vayuweb.com
To: "Jason T. Luttgens" <luttgenj@kic.or.jp>
CC: "www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Jason T. Luttgens wrote:
> Can anyone confirm this? On an NT4 server (maybe workstation too, I don't have it to try),
> if you telnet to port 135, type a bunch of junk (say 10-20 characters), hit enter and disconnect,
> the server's processor utilization will go up to 100%!!! The only fix I found was to reboot.
> I tried with and without SP2.....same result. The installation is 'out of the box' with standard
> default install options, of course including TCP/IP. I have no other NT4 servers to try this on
> and was wondering if I could get someone to try and confirm this .....
Yep, this takes down NT Server 4.0, as well. Anyone know of
a work-around or fix? Anyone know what service is on port 135?
Noah Parker
mailto:noah@vayuweb.com
