Re: Windows2000 telnet exploit

[Olle Segerdahl <olle () ENVY2 NXS SE>]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Sandro Gauci wrote:
> problem in the Telnet Server but rather a problem in the overall
> authentication
> process of Windows 2000, because I have also noticed the issue on a 3rd
> Party
> (non-MS) software which uses Windows 2000 authentication. I do not think
> this
> is a buffer overflow, the error message suggests that Windows 2000 is
> searching
> for some file: I cannot see any reason behind this.

I don't think WIN ever searches for filenames in the authentication process,
the error message could be the result of a failed registry lookup though...

/olle