Message-ID: <4089919D.1080403@egotistical.reprehensible.net>
From: ge at egotistical.reprehensible.net (Gadi Evron)
Subject: Potential Microsoft PCT worm (MS04-011)

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You should be more careful in the future, this email message started a
lot of panic and alarm.

A worm is coming, we all know that! Whether today, next week or in a
month, it will come. I appreciate any warning, but not one such as this.

This advisory below however is not from Microsoft, and although I am
sure you meant no harm, it appears to come from MS, format-wise and it
might even imply so in a first glance.

Non of the people I talked this over see a worm yet, so please be more
careful in the future, because unless you have actual information, this
advisory is nothing but mis-leading and a recycle of old information -
which I am sure you didn't mean, but rather just gathered relevant
information in an MS-like format for us all to benefit from.

Since you claim to have the "new" exploit, how about a snort signature,
for example, or more information?

Sorry if I have been rude.

Thank you.

	Gadi Evron.


advisories wrote:

| Potential Microsoft PCT worm (MS04-011)
|
| A revised exploit has been released for the PCT flaw in the last 24-hrs by
| THC (THCIISSLame.c). For the last few hours we have also been receiving
| uncorroborated anecdotal evidence from reliable sources that a working
worm
| is being trialled on the Internet, in preparation for imminent
release. The
| primary concern is that this flaw affects unpatched SSL enabled IIS
servers,
| which could potentially be thousands of hosts.
|
| The official Microsoft patch (MS04-011) is strongly recommended for
| immediate application. However, for some organisations, change control and
| software dependency testing have meant that there has not been enough time
| to test and apply the patch widely. Additionally there have been
reports of
| some organisations experiencing reliability issues after applying this
| patch, and so they have halted the rollout.
|
| As time is of the essence, an alternative to applying the patch is
available
| by disabling PCT. This option has been tested by Corsaire with the THC
| exploit on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 IIS only (but we have no reason to
| doubt that this approach will work just as well on the alternative MS
| platforms).
|
| There is a Microsoft knowledgebase article that describes the full
process.
| Be sure to follow the instructions to the letter, otherwise there is the
| risk that you will still be exposed:
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;187498
|
|
| -- Background --
|
| Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011 (Microsoft) Microsoft
| http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx
|
|
| -- Distribution --
|
| This security advisory may be freely distributed, provided that it
| remains unaltered and in its original form.
|
|
| -- Disclaimer --
|
| The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with
| no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise. Corsaire
| accepts no responsibility for any damage caused by the use or misuse of
| this information.
|
|
| Copyright 2004 Corsaire Limited. All rights reserved.
|
| _______________________________________________
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|
|

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