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Re: is port 57 vulnerability ????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quantum)
Mon Feb 3 04:56:58 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 02:56:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Quantum <quantum@obsidian.me.FAU.EDU>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970202130217.0071b040@nectar.com.au>
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, John Johnson wrote:
> Gents,
> I hate to sound like a Dill but what is the basic vulnerability
> of port 57 (mtp service) ???
>
> i've looked and cant find much about it and mtp service
>
> nor attacks based around that
>
> but i knew someone who did state (and they where a pretty factual person too !)
>
> that there are good access attacks thru 57 and any "assigned copy ports" (go
> me here what the heck is a assigned copy port?? a port above 1024 that does
> the same job?)
>
> just wish they where still here to explain...
>
> can any of you blokes answer this??
>
> besides denial of service attacks to here
>
> what else is there??
I wouldn't worrie too much it's just a 95/NT attack which is only possible
because Microsoft coders cant do anything right.
By the way - how do I get off this list ?
