Vulnerability Development: Re: Win2K Local DoS?

[Oliver Friedrichs <ofriedrichs () SECURITYFOCUS COM>]

Can you also try removing your \WINNT directory and see what happens?  A
little bit of sarcasm.  Quite honestly I'm sure there are thousands of
methods you can use to muck up your system if you wanted to, running
arbitrary programs (which a normal user wouldn't run) is one of them.  Once
you have execute permission on a Windows system there's not alot limiting
you from using resources.

- Oliver

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Stephenson [mailto:kevin.stephenson () POBOX COM]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:30 AM
> To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Win2K Local DoS?
>
>
> I ran services.exe from the run box, and it took my load up to 100%.
> Checking the task list, there were 2 services.exe and Win2K
> would not allow
> me to kill either process. The one I spawned was running at
> 99% of load. I
> then started up another 10 services.exe processes.
> Eventually, the load
> spread to about 33% over 3 of the processes. I don't see a way to kill
> these processes without a reboot. Have a nice day.