Full Disclosure: Re: Microsoft's Explorer and Internet Explorer long share name buffer overflow.

["Lan Guy" <rlanguy () hotmail com>]

http://lists.samba.org/archive/jcifs/2003-February/001782.html

Even people like Christopher Hertel
http://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-crhertel-smb-url-06.txt
don't know the maximum limit of a share name.
I always thought that the protocol could not have more than 127 charaters in 
a single share name length.
In any case Explorer should not crash.
Lan Guy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KF (lists)" <kf_lists () secnetops com>
To: <bugtraq () securityfocus com>
Cc: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft's Explorer and Internet Explorer 
long share name buffer overflow.

> I would say they lied myself... I have all patches from Windows update 
> installed including all the optional ones... still crashes for me and still 
> tears up the EIP and EBP. My IE advertises itself as: 6.0.2800.1106 SP1; 
> Q837009;Q8832894:Q831167 , The OS is Win2k Server 5.00.2195 SP4.
> Thus far I have been unable to locate a good unicode return address... but 
> thats not to say there is not one there. =] . For those of you wondering 
> smb.conf DOES allow for characters like \x90 and other things of that 
> nature.
> enjoy.
>
> -KF
>
>
> Paul Szabo wrote:
>
> > Anyway, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322857 lies when it says this 
> > is
> > fixed in W2kSP4; or maybe that KB article refers to a different problem: 
> > it
> > say the error should be "Access Violation", I got "Program Error".
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul Szabo - psz () maths usyd edu au 
> > http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
> > School of Mathematics and Statistics  University of Sydney   2006 
> > Australia
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