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Re: "zero day" exploit...?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Jun 9 02:41:04 2004

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:39:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <40C6AB78.1060901@sorbs.net>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
> In case you haven't seen it...
>
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=117316298&eid=-255

The good news is Windows XP Service Pack 2 blocks the attack.  The bad
news is XP/SP2 is still in beta.  The double-bad news is XP/SP2 is only
for XP; so "legacy" Microsoft users are still out of luck.

Full Disclosure has been discussing the details.


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