RE: bug w2k - more followup

From: Mark L. Jackson (mark_l_jackson@iname.com)
Date: 07/29/01 

From: "Mark L. Jackson" <mark_l_jackson@iname.com>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: bug w2k - more followup
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:22:26 -0700
Message-ID: <ANELKCODANPLKGOODADAIEKBCFAA.mark_l_jackson@iname.com>

> After a bit more playing around, it would appear that you don't
> have to use
> 'ping' - it can be *any* command you type at the prompt that takes long
> enough for you to press F7 + Enter more than 5 or 6 times. For
> example, I did
> a "dir c:\progs /s" and whilst it was busy traversing the
> directory tree, I
> pressed F7 + Enter several times. When the "dir" was finished,
> the machine
> rebooted. It seems like it may be an overflow of some kind in the command
> execution history facility.

I tried something similar to this, and was able to reboot the system, but no
BSOD or error messages. DOSKEY appears to not be able to handle multiple
interruptions. Not surprising I guess, it was not written for this
environment.

Mark

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