Re: WINS flooding

[davidrmo () NWU EDU (David Montgomery)]

If I'm not mistaken, MS has yet to release a hotfix for this problem on NT
3.51 - the hotfix they released is only for NT 4.0.

Has anyone reproduced this on 3.51, and if so, does this mean MS no longer
supports 3.51?

drm

At 09:57 AM 8/15/97 -0400, Sam Chan wrote:
> Aleph One wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:17:53 -0400
> > From: Holas, Ondxej <OHolas () EXCH DIGI-TRADE CZ>
> > To: NTBUGTRAQ () RC ON CA
> > Subject: WINS flooding
> >
> > When a flood of random (size and contents) UDP packets is sent to port
> > 137/UDP to machine running WINS Server, this service stops after about 5
> > seconds. I reproduced this on several machines running NTS 4.0 + WINS.
> > Even if there were SP3 and all (12) recent postfixes, this service
> > stops. The stop is regular, without Access Violation, manual restart is
> > possible (probably, when attacked, WINS service reports its state to
> > SCM). I never tried to reproduce this issue on NT 3.5x.
> >
> > I discovered there are many unprotected WINS servers in the Internet,
> > which are vulnerable to such attacks (including one well-known software
> > vendor).
> >
> > I reported this bug 06/27/1997, but now, I have neither reply from MS
> > nor available fix.
> >
> > If there's somebody who wants to get sample source (in C, of course) of
> > killing program, I can send it against E-mail.
> >
> > Ondrej Holas, MCSE
> > DIGI TRADE, spol. s r.o.
> > Czech Republic
> * NUKING WINS
>
> the follow comes from WinNTMag UPDATE Vol. 2, Issue 32:
>
> A problem with WINS was reported to Microsoft some months back. The
> problem
> lets a WINS server abnormally terminate. Last week, a post Service Pack
> 3
> (SP3) hotfix was released that corrects this problem. The problem is
> created when invalid UDP packets are directed to a WINS server, causing
> it
> to silently terminate.
>
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/hotfixes-po
>
> stSP3/winsupd-fix
>
>
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