bugtraq - RE: Possible windows+python bug

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:46:15 -0500
From: "Peter Oswald" <peteoswald@...cast.net>
To: "'azurIt'" <azurit@...ox.sk>
Cc: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: Possible windows+python bug

Perhaps the disabling of raw sockets in SP2 is the cause of this problem.
Try this.

Net stop SharedAccess

Then try running the Python code and see if it still crashes.

Afterwards you can restart the SharedAccess service. Cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: azurIt [mailto:azurit@...ox.sk] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:06 PM
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Possible windows+python bug

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:21:18PM -0000, liquid@...erspace.org 
wrote:
> > Start Python and type (of course x.x.x.x should be replaced with
> > IP address):
> > 
> > import socket
> > s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_RAW,4)
> > s.sendto("",("x.x.x.x",0))
> > 
> > Press ENTER and your win box should crash immediately.
> 
> I tested this on WinXP SP2 with Python 2.4.  The result is an
> exception:
> 
>   socket.error: (10022, 'Invalid argument')
> 
> I don't have Python 2.3 installed otherwise I would test that too.
> 
>   Neil
> 

i got the same exception, WinXP SP2, Python 2.3.4 .

azurIt

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