Re: NT/Exceed D.O.S.

From: Ian Westcott (rakarraat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 28 1999 - 17:39:00 PDT

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    On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:29:26PM -0700, LaFournaise, Chris J. wrote:
    > This is regarding Hummingbird's Exceed X emulator v5 (and possibly v6)
    > running on Windows NT.  I haven't tested Win95/98.
    >
    > The Exceed X server allows inbound TCP connections on port 6000 from the XDM
    > host.  If someone uses telnet from the XDM host to connect to a PC running
    > Exceed on port 6000 and enters any garbage text, the X server will hang and
    > the Exceed session is frozen for good.
    
    I just tested Exceed v6.0 under Win95, and it is vulnerable.
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