Bugtraq: Re: Windows 2000 .printer remote overflow proof of concept exploit

[David Litchfield <mnemonix () GLOBALNET CO UK>]

Matt Power <mhpower () BOS BINDVIEW COM>


> >        ... , will create a file called www.eEye.com.txt on the root of
> > drive c.
> >                 ... This proof of concept exploit is not to be used as a
> > method of testing to see if your vulnerable or not.
> In some environments, security staff may be responsible for
> identifying which IIS 5.0 servers, out of a large collection of them,
> still do not have a fix in place for this vulnerability. The security
> staff may not have any convenient way to check for the existence of
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My suggestion a while back, when the IIS htr overflow first arrived, was to
code up an exploit that downloads and installs the patch from a server
certified (by yourself) as safe. This way you kill two birds with one stone
;-)
Cheers,
David Litchfield