[4044] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Thu Jan 23 02:29:53 1997
From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
To: "'noah@vayuweb.com'" <noah@vayuweb.com>,
"Jason T. Luttgens"
<luttgenj@kic.or.jp>
Cc: "www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:51:10 -0500
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Latest information suggests that it does not "take down" NT at all,
merely disrupt the process time measurement program. The Gnu version
is not affected (according to reports).
-----Original Message-----
From: Noah Parker [SMTP:noah@vayuweb.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 22 January, 1997 11:29 AM
To: Jason T. Luttgens
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
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
