By Robert Lemos
Published: Thursday 17 June 2004
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Not remote-exploitable.
It's worth mentioning that this bug can only bring down a system if someone is able to execute the exploit code. They need to have a shell account or at least FTP access to somewhere they can install and run cgi-bins. Even then it kills the system one CPU at a time, so on an SMP system there will be evidence of who did it.
It doesn't let people in from the network; it doesn't allow the machine to be hijacked for malicious purposes. It's not going to cause a worm outbreak or DOS attacks, and it doesn't allow any data to be compromised.
And it's been fixed.
It's not good, but it's not a disaster.
How can you be so sloppy in what you publish here?...
Anonymous
Not remote-exploitable.
It's worth mentioning t...
Anonymous
If 'it's fair share of flaws' means 'considerably ...
Craig
how long would it of took microsoft to fix this pr...
Anonymous
Isn't it strange how the number of Microsoft patch...
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