Re: ISS Internet Scanner Cannot be relied upon for conclusive

From: Casper Dik (casperat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 09 1999 - 14:02:39 PST

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    >Consider another interesting case - there are several sendmail exploits
    >(circa 8.6) which require hardware and platform-specific eggs.  We
    >obviously would have a hard time actually implementing these, and it would
    >be very difficult to make it reliable - so we do a banner check.
    
    Why do you need an egg?  Just stuffing down too much data down
    sendmail's throat will make it crash.  Connection closed - has bug.
    
    Casper
    



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