NULL sessions on Windows 2000 systems [Was: Re: Re: It's not that simple...]

[Jean-Baptiste Marchand <jbm.lists () gmail com>]

* yossarian <yossarian () planet nl>:

> In the original X-Force paper named pipes were mentioned besides Null 
> Sessions. Does it need both or either one - the paper isn't clear on this? 
> The named pipes seem to have dropped from all discussion.... Anyway, never 
> broke anything by disabling them, either. This is a registry hack described 
> in the MS Hardening guides for 2000 and 2003 server. Just like Null 
> sessions. Elsewhere dunno, but probably, never bothered.

A NULL session usually refers to an anonymous connection to the IPC$
share, giving remote access to named pipes.

Some named pipes can be opened anonymously (these named pipes appear in
the NullSessionPipes registry value), i.e. in the context of a NULL
session.

In addition, 6 named pipes are harcoded in Windows 2000 and can always
be opened anonymously:

 http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/presentations/null_sessions/img7.html

The recent PnP vulnerability (MS05-039) can be anonymously exploited on
Windows 2000 systems with 139/tcp or 445/tcp open, *except* if the
RestrictAnonymous registry value is set to 2.

This is because the only way to disable NULL sessions *entirely* on
Windows 2000 is to set RestrictAnonymous to 2:

 http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/presentations/null_sessions/img23.html

Please read my recent presentation about NULL sessions, many people seem
to know about NULL sessions but fewer people really understand the
technical details:

 http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/presentations/null_sessions/


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