RE: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-16 Thread Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]
address book. Clearly the motivation is there, the flaws are there, it's the skill set that is missing. skills can be accurired by the motivated give the time and resourses so guess the lack of the motivation is a the root cause -aditya

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-15 Thread Hugh Mann
From: Geoincidents [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's retarded. Immunity is releasing a universal, repeatable, lsass exploit in about 5 minutes to our CANVAS customers, for example, and we're sure everyone else is done as well. For bonus credit we're including a working ASN.1 exploit that owns IIS,

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-15 Thread Geoincidents
I can see that you don't know anything about finding vulnerabilities or writing exploits. What you just said is Hey d3wd, there's like a vulnerability in windows man, and h3h see if you can find it d00d!. Isn't that exactly the assumption that eeye proceeds under? The original statement to

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-15 Thread Dkr. Armand Geddyn
Edward W. Ray wrote: If you are confident that no one else will discover those vulnerabilities the next time that MS waits to provide a solution, I wish you good luck These OSes have been around for years, running in hostile labs by evil geniuses, and the source code has been examined by

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-15 Thread Nicob
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 13:50, Geoincidents wrote: Clearly the motivation is there, the flaws are there, it's the skill set that is missing. The security world isn't composed of only talented and whitehats guys like (insert you prefered haker) and worm writers. There's some people who has really

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-15 Thread FlowerPower
Exibar wrote: You might have a point there with your box Curt ;-) But, Windows has a nice little utility that will patch you system for you Uh...sounds a bit like emerge sync emerge -u world. (Gentoo GNU/Linux) Or like apt-get update apt-get upgrade (Debian GNU/Linux) I was almost

[Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Edward W. Ray
I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my enterprise. Linux and OpenBSD use the 1 patch for 1 vulnerability rule. Seems to me that MS is bunching their patches together in order to make it seem on the surface that Windows has less patches than other Oses, therefore it is more secure. CIOs, take

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Roman Drahtmueller
I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my enterprise. Linux and OpenBSD use the 1 patch for 1 vulnerability rule. Seems to me that MS is bunching their patches together in order to make it seem on the surface that Windows has less patches than other Oses, therefore it is more secure. CIOs,

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Exibar
, but I DO feel better now :-) I'll get off my soapbox now Exibar - Original Message - From: Edward W. Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011 I use

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Tim
I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my enterprise. Linux and OpenBSD use the 1 patch for 1 vulnerability rule. Seems to me that MS is bunching their patches together in order to make it seem on the surface that Windows has less patches than other Oses, therefore it is more secure. CIOs,

RE: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Edward W. Ray
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roman Drahtmueller Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011 I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Exibar
. Ex - Original Message - From: Curt Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Exibar' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011 Exibar wrote: Do

RE: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Burnes, James
Microsoft decided to patch them? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roman Drahtmueller Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread John Sage
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:59:14AM -0400, Exibar wrote: From: Exibar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:59:14 -0400 give me a freakin break

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Seth Alan Woolley
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:10:20AM -0700, Edward W. Ray wrote: I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my enterprise. Linux and OpenBSD use the 1 patch for 1 vulnerability rule. Seems to me that MS is bunching their patches together in order to make it seem on the surface that Windows has

RE: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread David T Hollis
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:40 -0700, Edward W. Ray wrote: I would not mind the bunching, except that many of the vulnerabilities were discovered more than 4-6 months ago. The other Oses release patches much more quickly. What if someone other than Eeye with an axe to grind discovered these

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread madsaxon
At 11:59 AM 4/14/2004 -0400, Exibar wrote: Microsoft bashing because they're in Redmond, WA and you feel they should be in Texas somewhere? NO! Washington is just fine. We have enough pollution problems down here in Texas already, thank you. m5x ___

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Exibar
: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011 At 11:59 AM 4/14/2004 -0400, Exibar wrote: Microsoft bashing because they're in Redmond, WA and you feel they should be in Texas somewhere? NO! Washington

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:13:02 AM -0700 John Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, which is it? 3, 21, 20, over 30, at least 20? That's easy. All of the above. :-) So what does this say about accuracy in journalism? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Geoincidents
Exactly the point of full disclosure. If someone with a serious axe to grind would have stumbled onto the ASN.1 flaw before the Eeye notice, it could have been an ELE* for MS and some major corporations. Let's see, unpatched ASN.1 + Flash Worm = ? I think you seriously underestimate the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Exibar wrote: But, Windows has a nice little utility that will patch you system for you and pop up a nice little box near the clock that says system patched too... Windows Update works quite well actually. Now if it was only turned full on by default. And installing

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Aitel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geoincidents wrote: | Exactly the point of full disclosure. If someone with a serious | axe to | | grind would have stumbled onto the ASN.1 flaw before the Eeye | notice, it could have been an ELE* for MS and some major | corporations. | | Let's see,

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Rick Updegrove
Exibar wrote: You might have a point there with your box Curt ;-) But, Windows has a nice little utility that will patch you system for you and pop up a nice little box near the clock that says system patched too... Windows Update works quite well actually. Now if it was only turned full on

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Benjamin Meade
Dave Aitel wrote: | Exactly the point of full disclosure. If someone with a serious | axe to | | grind would have stumbled onto the ASN.1 flaw before the Eeye | notice, it could have been an ELE* for MS and some major | corporations. | | Let's see, unpatched ASN.1 + Flash Worm = ? | | | I think

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Geoincidents
That's retarded. Immunity is releasing a universal, repeatable, lsass exploit in about 5 minutes to our CANVAS customers, for example, and we're sure everyone else is done as well. For bonus credit we're including a working ASN.1 exploit that owns IIS, Exchange, and everything else... If

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Byron Copeland
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:38, Rick Updegrove wrote: Exibar wrote: On 2 recent occasions that I can recall a windows update broke windows. Once it disabled the NIC altogether and on another occasion it caused IE to run slower than a one legged cat, trying to bury a turd, on a frozen pond.

RE: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011

2004-04-14 Thread Edward W. Ray
] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 vulnerabilities, MS04-011 give me a freakin break people you guys complain when Microsoft doesn't patch something, and now you're complaining when Microsoft patches something I think that a lot of people just like to bash