Retina can do remote registry, and file version checks with the proper
credentials. So more than likely, its doing a registry check for the
hotfix.
Tom Ferris
Researcher
www.security-protocols.com
Key fingerprint = 0DFA 6275 BA05 0380 DD91 34AD C909 A338 D1AF 5D78
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Joshua Russel wrote in
news:7a282fc30512131028g40d65517k2254283bfecec6db@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It is a local vulnerability, then how does Retina claims to scan it
remotely?
Well, at a guess....
On 12/13/05, Advisories <Advisories@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Systems Affected:
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Beginning with Windows XP, KeFlushQueueApc contains a code fix that
resolves this vulnerability.
... it just looks to see if the O/S is XP/2K3 or NT/2K.
cheers,
DaveK
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