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Re: [Full-disclosure] No one else seeing the new MS05-039 worm yet?
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] No one else seeing the new MS05-039 worm yet?
- From: Peter Ferrie <pferrie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:14:41 -0700
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>Lastly they don't point out that "worm" propagation based on the
>PnP vulnerability only occurs on the Win2K boxes. Win2K3 and
>WinXP require some user/machine action to exploit the
>vulnerability, and the malware can't infect those boxes
>independently.
It's not quite like that.
XP pre SP2 is vulnerable to attack. They will most likely
crash because of a wrong address, but they can be reached.
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