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MS RPC Services null pointer reference DoS

Family:

Denial of Service

Category:

destructive_attack

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2002 Pavel Kankovsky

Summary:

Attempts to crash MS RPC service the Spike 2.7-way

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Cve_id:

-

Bugtraq_id:

6005

Xrefs:

-

Description:

MS Windows RPC service (RPCSS) crashes trying to dereference a
null pointer when it receives a certain malformed request.
All MS RPC-based services (i.e. a large part of MS Windows 2000+)
running on the target machine are rendered inoperable.

Solution : Block access to TCP port 135.
Risk factor : High