[21963] in bugtraq
Re: bug w2k
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Livitt)
Sat Jul 28 23:09:31 2001
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From: Carl Livitt <carl@ititc.com>
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:25:20 +0100
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> Just ping
> Now press F7 and Enter (try a couple of times quickly...less than ten , and
> you can see what a meaning)
> The machine reboots, from nothing a warm reboot.
Confirmed on Win2K Pro SP2, English. The reboot would not happen when there
was no ping process. As soon as a ping was in progress, *boom*.
I did notice there was a STOP, Fatal Error blue screen that appeared briefly,
but I could not catch what it said before the machine rebooted. Perhaps
someone else will have more luck?
Does anyone know: is the F7 key (used in CMD.EXE as to bring up a
most-recently-used command list) implemented in kernel or user space? If its
in user space, then this is a doubly worrying bug as it hints that it would
be possible for a non-privileged user to write code that could cause a BSOD
and reboot. If it's in kernel space, well I just hope that this situation is
not caused by an unchecked buffer....
Carl Livitt
Code Monkey
IT in the Community
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