It sort of seems similar to etherleak but minus the horrible part. I don't know what part of memory it would return, but I think because of the nature of the service it could return areas of protected memory. A. Ruef -----Original Message----- From: Luke Smith [mailto:luke@smith.name] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:54 PM To: 'Thor Larholm'; bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: RE: Microsoft Security Update >MS03-034 (NetBIOS information disclosure) gets a rating of Low, even though >Blaster showed us just how many Windows installations run with all ports >accessible. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulleti n/MS03-034.asp "Under certain conditions, the response to a NetBT Name Service query may, in addition to the typical reply, contain random data from the target system's memory. This data could, for example, be a segment of HTML if the user on the target system was using an Internet browser, or it could contain other types of data that exist in memory at the time that the target system responds to the NetBT Name Service query." It's not something you could directly own the box with, unlike RPC vuln that Blaster uses; it merely exposes some trivia, thus the "low" rating. Cheers, Luke Smith ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________