Second you should try to get in context. your qoute refers to the Indexing service not the IIS service. IIS must be running or there is nothing serviceing port 80 and therefore no way for hte exploit to work. to quote the same site: "So, if IIS is not running on my machine, I’m not affected by the vulnerability? That’s correct. Even if you’ve installed Index Server or Indexing Service, the vulnerability could only be exploited if IIS were running" -WTB Hi, I would like to offer a quote from MS01-033: "the service would not need to be running in order for an attacker to exploit the vulnerability." http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/ bulletin/MS01-033.asp Carey -----Original Message----- From: Meritt James [mailto:meritt_jamesat_private] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:28 AM To: kam Cc: Amer Karim; VULN-DEV List Subject: Re: CR II - winME? confirmation? (Slightly OT) "running" or "installed"? It is my understanding that the vulnerability exists if the files and mapping are there no matter the process state of the IIS server. Is my understanding incorrect? Jim kam wrote: > > Without IIS running, an attacker has no means of exploiting the vulnerable > file. With no access to the file, the vulnerability does not exist. If > they're running IIS, then there is a hole which they can exploit. Even > though it comes installed by default on 2000, it's not a risk until you turn > on your web services. > > kam > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Amer Karim" <amerkat_private> > To: "VULN-DEV List" <VULN-DEVat_private> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:03 AM > Subject: Re: CR II - winME? confirmation? (Slightly OT) > > > Hi All, > > > > All the advisories about CR state that only IIS servers are vulnerable. > > However, it's my understanding that the unchecked buffer in idq.dll was > the > > source of that vulnerability. If that's the case, then why have the > > advisories not included Win2K systems (all flavours) since idq.dll is > > installed by default as part of the indexing service on all these > systems - > > regardless of whether they are using the service or not? Wouldn't that > make > > ANY system with the indexing service on it just as vulnerable as systems > > with IIS? Am I overlooking something obvious here? > > > > Regards, > > Amer Karim > > Nautilis Information Systems > > e-mail: amerkat_private, mamerkat_private > > > > > > -- James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA Booz, Allen & Hamilton phone: (410) 684-6566
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