Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:50:04 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards), security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't winblows program have buffer overruns? Message-ID: <199808171851.MAA24710@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpww87tvst.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> References: <Brett Glass's message of "Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:36:30 -0600"> <199808170244.UAA18362@lariat.lariat.org>
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At 06:30 PM 8/17/98 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: >This is getting off-topic, but the bug is in the TCP/IP stack, not the >NetBIOS code. The only reason WinNuke uses port 139 (the netbios-ssn >port) is that you're pretty sure there'll be someone listening there. I don't turn on NetBIOS on any Windows machine I use or administer. In fact, about the only thing they'll respond to is a ping. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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