".rain.forest.puppy." wrote:
>
> > The 2.0.5a crashed services.exe by doing:
> > smb: \> srvshares
> > cli_pipe: return critical error. Error was code 0
> > The machine is in a very odd state now (can't do anything, no BSOD,
> > trying to reboot...can't seem to...finally did...
>
> This is RFPoison, exactly. Microsoft has released MS99-055, which fixes
> this problem, but I would be willing to bet it still leaves all the other
> RPC problems wide open--i.e. they patched against THIS SPECIFIC attack
> only, rather than fix RPC as a whole.
>
> Cheers,
> .rain.forest.puppy.
Thanks for the info RFP. It looks to me like the Samba rpcclient code is
going to be a very useful research tool.
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Received on Dec 15 1999