RE: Microsoft Windows 2000 WebDAV Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

From: Frank Knobbe (fknobbeat_private)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 10:25:15 PST

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    On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 22:02, Royans Tharakan wrote:
    > I checked this out. SANS had an emergency webcast this morning
    > in which a lot of security engineers reviewed this bug. Few microsoft
    > guys where there who confirmed that OWA uses its own version of WEBDAV
    > which overrides the version which is installed by the OS. 
    > They said the version of WEBDAV in OWA is not vulnerable to this exploit.
    
    
    However, those same folks said that it is not the LOCK method that is
    vulnerable, but in fact only the GET method. I heard reports from guys
    who just couldn't make WebDAV crash with GET, but didn't have a problem
    with SEARCH and PROPFIND. Personally, I'm wondering if ISS was just
    spreading misinformation to confuse the potential worm-writers, but I'm
    not making any such accusation. (Misinformation wouldn't be effective
    anyway. But then again, neither is holding back the details for a sig,
    but explaining how it works...:/
    
    I think it's safe to assume that any WebDAV method, and perhaps others,
    not yet discovered components, are vulnerable, mainly because the bug is
    in ntdll.dll. So perhaps OWA is vulnerable.... we just haven't found out
    where and how....
    
    Regards,
    Frank
    
    
    
    



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