full-disclosure - Database servers on XP and the curious flaw

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Date: Wed Nov 16 18:27:09 2005
From: davidl at ngssoftware.com (David Litchfield)
Subject: Database servers on XP and the curious flaw

Hi Eliah,

>David Litchfield wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> I've just put up a paper on a curious flaw that appears when running a

>My intent is not to MS-bash here, but perhaps Microsoft is to blame
>for not educating people about this issue. (If they had, your paper
>would be superfluous.)

>Usually if millions of users are insecure because they don't know
>something, someone is to blame.

To be honest I don't think we're talking millions of people. How many people 
at home run a fully fledged RDBMS on their XP systems? Very few I'd guess. 
Besides, Simple File Sharing is documented so MS are educating those willing 
to seek information.

Cheers,
David
http://www.databasesecurity.com/
http://www.ngssoftware.com/