full-disclosure - Cox is blocking port 135

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From: joey2cool at yahoo.com (Joey)
Subject: Cox is blocking port 135 - off topic

cox does block port 445 also, but i havent seen any
exploits that use that port. even though its said that
port 445 is vulnerable, where is the POC?

--- Kurt Seifried <listuser@...fried.org> wrote:
> Off topic:
> 
> This won't help much at all. Windows 2000/XP run
> Microsoft SMB over TCP on
> 445 as well (reduced overhead then 135/etc, no
> NetBIOS layer). When a client
> tries to connect to a remote host for file/print
> sharing/etc it connects on
> both ports 135 and 445, if a response is recieved
> from port 445 it drops the
> connection to 135. THe attack works quite well
> against client systems using
> port 445. If Cox blocks both ports 135 and 445 that
> will be semi-effective
> (except of course for internal users who spread a
> worm/etc, such as laptops
> that move around). THis may block a few of the more
> stupid attacks but not
> for long.
> 
> Kurt Seifried, kurt@...fried.org
> A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF
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> http://seifried.org/security/
> 


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