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Re: RFP9903: AeDubug vulnerabilty

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper M. Johansson)
Wed Oct 13 19:29:04 1999

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Date:         Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:13:50 -0400
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From: "Jesper M. Johansson" <jjohanss@BU.EDU>
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>>I have a machine which Dr.Watsons reliably when running SRVINFO.EXE
>>against a particular host (I haven't figured out why yet...)
>
>Maybe a samba box?  Samba will often give things back to Win32 API calls
>that NT won't and it can violate the programmer's assumptions.

FYI, this most likely happened because he was using the NT Resource Kit
Supplement 2 version of SRVINFO.EXE. It would Dr. Watson when run against a
machine that had any hotfixes installed. Use the Supplement 3 version of
SRVINFO.EXE instead.

Jesper


Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Boston University
jjohanss@bu.edu
Editor, SANS NT Digest
MCSE , MCP + I

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