[4089] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bracha@eye-on.co.il)
Sun Jan 26 14:49:24 1997
From: bracha@eye-on.co.il
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:52:12 +0200
To: Tony <tony@ibt.net>
CC: "Jason T. Luttgens" <luttgenj@kic.or.jp>, webserver-nt@DELTA.PROCESS.COM,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Tony wrote:
>
> Jason,
>
> This does not seem to be a hardware-related problem. I have reproduced
> it on an NT Workstation (4.0 SP2). Port 135 is not in the well-known
> services list (%SYSTEMROOT%\drivers\etc\SERVICES), but appears to affect
> the Remote Procedure Call Service (RPCSS.EXE). Since this is a special
> service it cannot be stopped through the Services applet in the Control
> Panel or by using the "net stop" command. The connection appears to be
> stuck in the CLOSE_WAIT state and will finally terminate after about 25
> minutes. This is definitely a problem that MS needs to address ASAP. I
> will relay any additional information that I can gather about this problem.
> Please do not use the WWW Security list for followups.
>
> Best Regards,
> Tony Weasler
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Tony Weasler tony@ibt.net http://tony.ibt.net/
>
> "You are the final measure of anything you accomplish."
>
> At 06:27 AM 1/22/97 +0900, you 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 .....
> >
> >Luck
> >
> >
Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me
off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this
dumb list!!!!!
