[4098] 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 14:53:44 1997
From: bracha@eye-on.co.il
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:52:47 +0200
To: "Chris LaFournaise (cjl)" <cjl@sequent.com>
CC: "'Jason T. Luttgens'" <luttgenj@kic.or.jp>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Chris LaFournaise (cjl) wrote:
>
> We just tried it and saw the same behavior. The RPC server
> (rpcss.exe) process is what consumes the CPU, however it doesn't seem
> to affect the performance of the machine.
>
> We couldn't find any mention of this in TechNet.
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason T. Luttgens [SMTP:luttgenj@kic.or.jp]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 1997 1:27 PM
> To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Subject: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
>
> 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
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