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Old 08-08-2002, 12:17 PM   #1
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Design flaws in Win32 API


I haven't tested it. It's nearly unbelivable for me, but....
http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html
 
Old 08-08-2002, 03:49 PM   #2
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Yahoo! :-)
 
Old 08-08-2002, 10:40 PM   #3
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This is just great we tried it on my friends PC running Win2k it's amazing, I used my Linux box as a cracking machine, lol I was administering his server remotely from a linux box, this is just great. Now he's installing FreeBSD
 
Old 08-09-2002, 05:07 AM   #4
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But was this a remote exploit? As far as I understood you had to be able to execute code on the machine. How did you manage to do this from your linuxbox?
 
Old 08-09-2002, 05:17 AM   #5
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Oops

Ooops, after rereading I saw that I've missed a few things...sorry.
 
Old 08-11-2002, 12:11 AM   #6
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hahahha this is sooo coool
 
Old 08-11-2002, 12:57 PM   #7
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Quote:
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This is just great we tried it on my friends PC running Win2k it's amazing, I used my Linux box as a cracking machine, lol I was administering his server remotely from a linux box, this is just great. Now he's installing FreeBSD
Lol, I love that. Now, we would need to do this with every win$ administrator and see how much Win$ is going to be
 
Old 08-12-2002, 11:00 AM   #8
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Just another fine example of poor thinking and planning... and of course stupidity!
 
Old 08-12-2002, 01:01 PM   #9
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haha, nice one, I'll have to try that out, (looking around the room for a win2k box, shit there's none, I'll have to install it)
 
  


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