[8975] in bugtraq
Re: nmap can crash microsoft telnetd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wilson)
Thu Jan 7 14:21:42 1999
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 02:26:22 +0000
Reply-To: Chris.Wilson@fitz.cam.ac.uk
From: Chris Wilson <cmw32@CAM.AC.UK>
X-To: maniac@JADIERKO.LOCALHOST.SK
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Tomas Halgas wrote:
>
> Nmap 2.01++ can crash microsoft winnt telnetd. Only need to have option
> -sS enabled when scanning...
> You will get a aplication popup with message like this - program made an
> illegal operation.
>From my experience of Windows NT 4 running the telnetd service supplied in the
Resource Kit, this daemon seems to crash after any successful connection,
requiring a reboot. The Windows NT telnet daemon does not seem to be reliable
in any useful sense.
Ciao, Chris.
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