RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Austin Ehlers
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" Okay, now that we can all count, does anyone have a clue where in the M$ code this sort of arithmetic base translation occurs? And no, I don't have nor do I want the Windows source that's been release - I'm

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Gregory A. Gilliss
Okay, now that we can all count, does anyone have a clue where in the M$ code this sort of arithmetic base translation occurs? And no, I don't have nor do I want the Windows source that's been release - I'm just curious; perhaps others are as well. G On or about 2004.04.16 13:47:04 +, Charlie

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Charlie Root
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:14:56AM -0700, Schmidt, Michael R. wrote: > I will point out that octal only has digits from 0 to 7, so 092 > cannot be interpreted as octal Sure. And there's the potential bug. FreeBSD interprest 092 as 92 since its clearly not octal. MS interprets it as 74. Go figure.

RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Schmidt, Michael R.
"feature" -Original Message- > From: Sacha J. Bernstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:59 AM > To: Davide Del Vecchio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" > > > The leading zero spe

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:42:37 EDT, Aaron Gee-Clough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > C:\>ping 090.090.090.090 > > Pinging 72.72.72.72 with 32 bytes of data: Geez... it's hard enough figuring out that 8*9=72, you want it to be smart enough to notice that octal doesn't have a '9' any more than base 10

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Tim Bond
cchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" Hi list, I`m sorry for the OT, Anyone has a good explaination for this ? Windows XP Professional SP1 C:\>ping 10.10.10.10 Esecuzione

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Bradford Shedwick
Duh.  Of course.  Don't know why I didnt think of that.  Must be the 8 hours of sleep i've gotten in the last 3 days...   Ban lack of sleep forever!!!Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Davide Del Vecchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes:> It seems like the 0 character implies a modification i

RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Ross, Jason
-Original Message- > From: Sacha J. Bernstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:59 AM > To: Davide Del Vecchio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" > > > The leading zero specifies that the numb

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 16. April 2004 18:45 schrieb Ross, Jason: [...] > F:\>ping 010.060.092.144 > Pinging 010.060.092.144 [10.60.92.144] with 32 bytes of data: [...] > Not being overly familiar with octal, there may be a reason for this > behavior, but it s

RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Del Vecchio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" > > > The leading zero specifies that the number following is > octal. This is > expected behavior, and you will find that Solaris, FreeBSD, > and Solaris all > act exactl

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Aaron Gee-Clough
Jeffrey A.K. Dick wrote: "Anyone has a good explaination for this ? " I'll leave it to you to decide if the explanation is good ... "Windows NT utilities can accept Internet Protocol (IP) addresses comprised of decimal, octal, or hexadecimal numbers. This can cause confusion if you unintentional

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Michal Zalewski
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Bradford Shedwick wrote: > Wierd. > IE. 020 becomes 16; 090 becomes 72. > Not sure why it does it. Behold the magical properties of octal system. I suggest reading documentation for scanf, specifically the %i bit, before expressing your further disbelief and amazement on th

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Bradford Shedwick
Wierd.   It does the same thing on Windows 2K as well.  When you put a zero in front of the field, it somehow changes the octet to whatever number you have in the second position times eight.   IE. 020  becomes 16;  090 becomes 72.   Not sure why it does it.Davide Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Sacha J. Bernstein
The leading zero specifies that the number following is octal. This is expected behavior, and you will find that Solaris, FreeBSD, and Solaris all act exactly the same. Sacha --On Friday, April 16, 2004 15:14:24 +0200 Davide Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I`m sorry for the O

RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread John.Herbert
Title: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" 010 = Octal... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Davide Del VecchioSent: Fri 16/04/2004 14:14To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature" Hi list,I`m sorry for the OT,Anyone has a good e

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Paolo Mattiangeli
010 translating into 8... it reminds to me something like octal format,isn't it? ;)p.- Original Message - From: "Davide Del Vecchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:14 PMSubject: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft &quo

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Lyne Bourque
There is a full MS Q article on this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q115388 Enjoy. :) - Original Message - From: "Davide Del Vecchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: [Full-Di

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Cedric Blancher
Le ven 16/04/2004 à 15:14, Davide Del Vecchio a écrit : > Anyone has a good explaination for this ? > Windows XP Professional SP1 [...] > C:\>ping 010.10.10.10 > Esecuzione di Ping 010.10.10.10 [8.10.10.10] con 32 byte di dati: Leading 0 means octal notation for numbers. > Obviously if you tr

RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Serge van Ginderachter (svgn)
> C:\>ping 010.010.010.010 > > Esecuzione di Ping 010.010.010.010 [8.8.8.8] con 32 byte di dati: > > Control-C > ^C C:\>ping 0111.0101.0100.0111 Pinging 73.65.64.73 with 32 bytes of data: Control-C C:\Documents and Settings\svgn.LPTSVGN>ping 0x0F.0x0A.0xA5.0x1C Pinging 15.10.165.28 with 3

RE: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Jeffrey A.K. Dick
"Anyone has a good explaination for this ? " I'll leave it to you to decide if the explanation is good ... "Windows NT utilities can accept Internet Protocol (IP) addresses comprised of decimal, octal, or hexadecimal numbers. This can cause confusion if you unintentionally use a leading zero in

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Davide Del Vecchio wrote: > Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is > just ignored. > It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field.. > It`s not a bug of the "ping" command, because it "works" on telnet, ftp..

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Florian Weimer
"Davide Del Vecchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field.. In some programming languages, the leading zero signals that an octal number follows. And guess what? "10", as an octal number, denotes the number eight... -- Current mai

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Bugtraq Security Systems
Welcome to OCTAL! That's a feature with no quotes. We at BSS recommend you read more of our hacking documents to fully understand such things as OCTAL and HEXADECIMAL. We agree that Windows hacking is hard, and you should be prepared to study to really undestand the internals of the cmd.exe toolset

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Raymond Morsman
Quoting Davide Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is > just ignored. > It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field.. Looks like you're pinging with octal numbers, maybe XP interprets 010 as octal 10, which is 8

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Steve Ames
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Davide Del Vecchio wrote: > Hi list, > > I`m sorry for the OT, > Anyone has a good explaination for this ? > > Windows XP Professional SP1 > > C:\>ping 10.10.10.10 > > Esecuzione di Ping 10.10.10.10 con 32 byte di dati: > > Control-C > ^C > C:\>pi

[Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Davide Del Vecchio
Hi list, I`m sorry for the OT, Anyone has a good explaination for this ? Windows XP Professional SP1 C:\>ping 10.10.10.10 Esecuzione di Ping 10.10.10.10 con 32 byte di dati: Control-C ^C C:\>ping 010.10.10.10 Esecuzione di Ping 010.10.10.10 [8.10.10.10] con 32 byte di dati: Control-C

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

2004-04-16 Thread Ovidiu Constantin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pe data de Vin 16 Apr 2004 16:14, Davide Del Vecchio a scris: > Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is > just ignored. > It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field.. > It`s not a bug of the "ping" comm