full-disclosure - DCOM RPC exploit (dcom.c)

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Message-ID: <002101c3548b$609a5420$23029dd9@tuborg>
From: kain at ircop.dk (Knud Erik Højgaard)
Subject: DCOM RPC exploit  (dcom.c)

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 14:24, Jason wrote:
>>
>> Ok:
>> In short it goes like this.
>>
>> Click Start->Run
>> Type "dcomcnfg.exe"
>> Turn it off
>
> Great!  Now go click all 5000 computers we have to take care of.

Even I, with my limited knowledge, was able to reproduce what seems to have
the same effect using "active registry monitor" and a few minutes of spare
time. However it seems quite a few things use this DCOM stuff, so rolling
out the hotfix via your mass-deployment tool might be the smarter way to go.

--
kokanin