[16745] in bugtraq
Re: trivial DoS in webTV
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Greenbaum)
Wed Sep 13 12:40:26 2000
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:51:20 -0700
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From: Ben Greenbaum <bgreenbaum@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
This applies to 98se and Windows ME, also.
Ben Greenbaum
Director of Site Content
SecurityFocus
http://www.securityfocus.com
> There exists a trivial DoS in webTV coming from plain 98
> installation.
>
> By sending a udp packet to the 22701-22705 (opened up by annclist.exe)
> you can cause the program to crash or cause various blue screens etc.
> The larger the size, the more dramitic the effects (lockups, reboots
> and that).
>
> Microsoft (secure@microsoft.com) was advised around 13/8. I asked them
> to get back to me a while ago, but I haven't heard any responses yet.
>
> Good day.
>
> Oh yeah, port 22703 mainly causes reboots. Enjoy.
