full-disclosure - Possibly a stupid question RPC over HTTP

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From: toddtowles at brookshires.com (Todd Towles)
Subject: Possibly a stupid question RPC over HTTP

Are you talking about the BITS change? Where it does BITS over HTTP? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of 
> Daniel H. Renner
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:37 AM
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Possibly a stupid question RPC 
> over HTTP
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> Could you please point out where you read this data?  I would 
> like to see this one...
> --
> Daniel H. Renner <dan@...angelescomputerhelp.com> Los Angeles 
> Computerhelp
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 20:54, full-disclosure-request@...ts.netsys.com
> wrote:
> > Message: 18
> > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:41:56 -0700
> > From: "Daniel Sichel" <daniels@...derosatel.com>
> > To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
> > Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Possibly a stupid question RPC over HTTP
> > 
> > This may just reflect my ignorance, but I read (and found hard to
> > believe) that Microsoft has implemented RPC over HTTP. Is this not a
> > HUGE security hole? If I understand it correctly it means 
> that good old
> > HTML or XML can invoke a process using standard web traffic 
> (port 80)?
> > Is there any permission checking done? what things can be 
> invoked by RPC
> > over HTTP? Jeeze, to me it looks like the barn door is now 
> wide open. Am
> > I right, and if so, how can I detect RPCs in web traffic to 
> block this
> > junk? Can ANY stateful packet filter see this stuff or is 
> the pattern
> > too broad in allowed RPCs?
> > 
> > Again, I hope this is not a stupid question or 
> inappropriate format for
> > this, as somebody else recently said, there is already 
> enough noise on
> > this list. I would hate to see this list degenerate, it has 
> been REALLY
> > valuable to me as a network engineer on occaison.
> > 
> > Thanks all,
> > Dan Sichel
> > Ponderosa telephone
> > daniels@...derosatel.com
> > 
> 
> 
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