Re: [fw-wiz] Help w/ Port 137 Traffic

From: Paul D. Robertson (probertsat_private)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 05:29:26 PDT

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    On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mikael Olsson wrote:
    
    > Hmm.  I would have thought that bugbear & co would result in port 
    > 139 (nbsession) activity.
    
    Yep, that's probably right, but the first reference I pulled up this 
    morning said: "Spreads via e-mail and/or network shares using port 137."
    
    http://www.ciac.org/ciac/W32_BugBear_info.html
    
    I don't know if that means (A) the 137 lookups happen prior to a 139 
    infection, (B) there is a 137 overflow and it's got something to do with 
    having a share available, or (C) They're wrong.
    
    I suspect the worm does a lookup prior to an infection, but I really don't 
    know- I don't run Windows, so I haven't played with doing NetBIOS stuff 
    and don't know what the normal programming sequence is for enumerating 
    shares, and as we don't let customers expose NetBIOS ports at all, this 
    was never high on my list of things to worry about.
    
    Paul
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