AW: pc-anywhere (version 9.2) - telnet kills service

["Thorsten Mayr" <tmayr () kitcon net>]

Thanks for information,
Looks like I was too blind finding symantecs response on that..
I know how upsetting it is - as we got some new clients using symantec's pc anywhere 9.2....
Got a lot of work to get these guys kind of up to date...

Topic closed ;)

Thorsten

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> Von: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com 
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> von Harris, Michael C.
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. November 2003 17:58
> An: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Betreff: RE: [Full-Disclosure] pc-anywhere (version 9.2) - 
> telnet kills service
>
>
> We found this out 3 years ago, when we started doing port 
> scanning to identify rogue servers.  You can also cause this 
> 'denial of service' by doing nmap or nessus scans across 
> machines running PCAnywhere.  One scan to the default control 
> port 5631 is enough to keep the service from responding to 
> further legitimate connection attempts.  A stop and restart 
> of the host service solves the problem but it does upset 
> support staff when you do a scan on Friday and they have to 
> drive in over the weekend because they can't get into 
> machines running PCAW. 
>
> here is a response from Symantec... from the way back machine  
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pcanywhere.denial.of.service.html

Mike
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Michael C Harris 
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University of Missouri Health Center 
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-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com]On Behalf Of Thorsten 
Mayr
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:52 AM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: [Full-disclosure] pc-anywhere (version 9.2) - telnet kills service


doing a telnet on standard pc anywhere port 5631 onto a running pcanywhere service (running on a w2k sp4), lead to a 
kill of  the service/deamon. Though (old known bug the service doesn´t appear to be not working looking him up on the 
services snapin) I haven´t heard of that before... though I am aware that 9.2 is a rather old version, but there are 
companys who won´t buy new licences all day..... all I found about is 
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/vuln-dev/2001/Aug/0019.html this one though I don´t need as described 300 - 500 
conenctions. 1 or 2 are enough.

thought it might of value for some...
(same happened on a nt 4.0 sp6a)

rgds
Thorsten

Thorsten Mayr
Kitcon GmbH 
we do It :)

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