Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why is IRC still around?

2004-11-19 Thread Robert Wesley McGrew
. -- Robert Wesley McGrew http://cse.msstate.edu/~rwm8/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] HTML FORMATED MAIL ( ie - oe - html ) bgsoundlocal file - ding?

2003-08-05 Thread Robert Wesley McGrew
Just got around to looking at it, and from where I sit, it appears to be merely an annoyance, apart from fringe circumstances where discernable audio output from a workstation is critical and is disrupted by this. In that case, any bgsound, remote or local, is undesirable. The file accessed is

Re: [Full-Disclosure] DCOM RPC exploit (dcom.c)

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Wesley McGrew
Good of a point as any to jump into this, with a couple of questions to steer conversation towards something resembling productivity ;). For the record, I support full-disclosure with reasonable vendor notification, taking into account a time to acknowledge and a time to patch, and I also

Re: [Full-Disclosure] DCOM RPC exploit (dcom.c)

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Wesley McGrew
process On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Robert Wesley McGrew wrote: 2) For this DCOM RPC problem in particular, everyone's talking about worms. How would the worm know what return address to use? Remote OS fingerprinting would mean it would be relatively large, slow, and unreliable (compared

RE: [Full-Disclosure] DCOM RPC exploit (dcom.c)

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Wesley McGrew
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Schmehl, Paul L wrote: 2) For this DCOM RPC problem in particular, everyone's talking about worms. How would the worm know what return address to use? Remote OS fingerprinting would mean it would be relatively large, slow, and unreliable (compared with Slammer),

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cisco Bug 44020 - Final Thoughts

2003-07-23 Thread Robert Wesley McGrew
As far as your code is concerned any number that suits (real_vuln_protocol)+256*n should crash the machine. However, this is meaningless, since, as you say, the IP header's protocol field is only 8 bits, so you can generate larger numbers all day, but only your least-significant 8 bits are being