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Re: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bracha@eye-on.co.il)
Sun Jan 26 14:55:20 1997
From: bracha@eye-on.co.il
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 20:02:43 +0200
To: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
CC: "'noah@vayuweb.com'" <noah@vayuweb.com>,
"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
Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> 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
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