Serious Windows TCP/IP Security Hole
Rich Graves
llurch at Networking.Stanford.EDU
Wed Oct 4 16:57:57 PDT 1995
I'm forwarding you a couple messages. I haven't run SAMBA myself, but
people who have have been able to read files on my machine that aren't
supposed to be shared.
-rich
On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Henry Sanders (Exchange) wrote:
> Hi, I've jumped in late on this thread. What is the bug referred to in the note below? I might be able to give you current status on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Henry Sanders
> henrysa at microsoft.com
>
> >In article <44amc4$ft6 at nntp.Stanford.EDU>, llurch at networking.stanford.edu
> says...
> >>
> >>FYI for those of you still running WFW. Could anybody confirm or deny
> >>that Microsoft has patched this hole in the shipping version of 95?
> >>As with most such serious "oopsies," Microsoft has not made any
> >>information on this issue available in their Knowledge Base.
> >
> >Nope, it is still there.
>
> Can you demonstrate that this is true? I'll give you an account on my box.
> I've received several notes and flames that the problem either never
> existed (which I know is untrue) or was fixed at a specified (often
> specified different) patch level.
>
> I should really try this myself, but I don't have time, and the only UNIX
> box I can really mess with is my Linux box, which is also my Win95 box.
>
-rich
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