[4090] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bracha@eye-on.co.il)
Sun Jan 26 14:49:46 1997
From: bracha@eye-on.co.il
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:53:42 +0200
To: NetSurfer <netsurf@pixi.com>
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
NetSurfer wrote:
> 
> This causes RPCSS to take 90-100% of the CPU resources.  Your only options
> are to either kill the process (risky) or reboot.
> 
> ----------
> From: Jason T. Luttgens <luttgenj@kic.or.jp>
> 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 .....
> 
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