Re: SUMMARY: SMB overflow attacks

From: Emeric Miszti (emeric@uksecurityonline.com)
Date: 08/30/02


From: Emeric Miszti <emeric@uksecurityonline.com>
To: <jasonc@science.org>, <vuln-dev@security-focus.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:19:36 +0100

On Thursday 29 Aug 2002 10:51 pm, Jason Coombs wrote:
> SUMMARY: There does not appear to be any way to get Windows 2000 to stop
> binding to port 445 at this time. It's possible in Windows NT, but then
> again SMB was an after-thought for NT (Service Pack 3 or 4, I don't
> remember which) and the NT kernel doesn't bind port 445 as aggressively.

Have a look at http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/windows2000/close445.htm
and try the methods there. Works for me and everyone else who has done this.

Hope this helps.

Regards

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Emeric Miszti
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