RE: Is MS06-018 a DoS or a system compromise ?

2006-05-15 Thread Hayes, Bill
The answer seems to be "it depends". There are really two MSDTC flaws, CVE-2006-0034 and CVE-2006-1184 that are being discussed. Secunia rates the cumulative security risk as "Moderately Critical" and weighs the DoS attack as the dominate effect for modern Windows OSes. FRSIRT rates the cumulat

RE: Is MS06-018 a DoS or a system compromise ?

2006-05-15 Thread Maxime Ducharme
Hello Nick and people on the list I have seen 2 servers last month which have been hacked and actively used to scan TCP 3372 on foreign IPs There were servers which had port 3372 accessible (a firewall rule misconfiguration was making TCP ports >3000 accessible on the Internet) I was not able

Re: Is MS06-018 a DoS or a system compromise ?

2006-05-18 Thread Nick Boyce
On 5/15/06, Hayes, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The CVE-2006-1184 flaw will cause DoS conditions. The CVE-2006-0034 vulnerability will cause DoS conditions and is exploitable on older systems. See eEye Digital Security advisory AD20060509a, "Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Heap