From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 17 11:51:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22390 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22379 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA24710; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:51:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808171851.MAA24710@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.44 (Beta) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:50:04 -0600 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why don't winblows program have buffer overruns? Cc: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards), security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199808170244.UAA18362@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA22383 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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