Re: Crash NT via Telnet WORKS!!!

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Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:03:07 -0400

At 05:51 PM 6/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Today, it was demonstrated to me, that you can crash NT from remote via
>telnet. INSTANTLY, and repeatedly! Something about telnetting into the
>netbios port (139 I think) and doing something. I didn't get the
>specifics, as I figured it was bogus. But I asked them to demonstrate it
>to me. They called me to warn me, and ZAP! I was stunned.
>
>Does anyone know about this besides the high school kids here? Is there a
>fix?

The OOB fix has been out for a couple weeks now, for NT 4, 3.5x, and
Windows95.

NT
http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/Q143/4/78.htm

Windows95
http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q168/7/47.htm

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