From: Ziots, Edward (EZiotsLifespan.org)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 08:16:59 CST

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Has anyone seen a virus/worm or misconfiguration load the WINS Client
> Service on a Win2k Server? In all the servers I have built I have never
seen
> this service, it basically had a dllhost.exe and svchost.exe copy in the
> c:\winnt\system32\wins directory, and svchost.exe was a renamed copy of
> tftp.exe, and dllhost.exe had a alternative stream of nc.exe in it.
>
> If anyone has run into this before let me know what solutions you might
have
> found,
>
>
> Edward Ziots
> Windows NT/Citrix Administrator
> Lifespan Network Services
> MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I,M.E,CCA,Security +, Network +
> eziotslifespan.org
> Cell:401-639-3505
> Pager:401-350-5284

Edward Ziots
Windows NT/Citrix Administrator
Lifespan Network Services
MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I,M.E,CCA,Security +, Network +
eziotslifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505
Pager:401-350-5284

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Ahmad [mailto:dasecurityfocus.com]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:05 PM
To: Ziots, Edward
Subject: Re: WINS CLient Service

Please post this to the INCIDENTS mailing list
<incidentssecurityfocus.com>.

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:19:59PM -0500, Ziots, Edward wrote:
> Has anyone seen a virus/worm or misconfiguration load the WINS Client
> Service on a Win2k Server? In all the servers I have built I have never
seen
> this service, it basically had a dllhost.exe and svchost.exe copy in the
> c:\winnt\system32\wins directory, and svchost.exe was a renamed copy of
> tftp.exe, and dllhost.exe had a alternative stream of nc.exe in it.
>
> If anyone has run into this before let me know what solutions you might
have
> found,
>
>
> Edward Ziots
> Windows NT/Citrix Administrator
> Lifespan Network Services
> MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I,M.E,CCA,Security +, Network +
> eziotslifespan.org
> Cell:401-639-3505
> Pager:401-350-5284
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Meehan [mailto:GMeehanLifeTimeFitness.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: 3APA3A; Mr. P.Taylor
> Cc: aleph1securityfocus.com; bugtraqsecurityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Websense Blocked Sites XSS
>
>
>
> FYI: You can use a customized block page in /custom that does not display
> the URL, such as creating a "Sorry, This URL is Blocked" page with your
> company's logo. Heck, you can also just edit the "master.html" block page
in
> the /default dir to remove the URL displayed field.
>
> -Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 3APA3A [mailto:3APA3ASECURITY.NNOV.RU]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:09 AM
> To: Mr. P.Taylor
> Cc: aleph1securityfocus.com; bugtraqsecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Websense Blocked Sites XSS
>
>
> Dear Mr. P.Taylor,
>
> It runs error message in context of blocked site. Now lets try to find
> out possible impacts:
>
> 1. It's possible to run javascript on the user host in context of
> blocked site. But it's most likely blocked site is not in list of
> trusted web sites on user's host, so it's impossible to get something
> different from running same script on another webpage.
>
> 2. It possible to steal cookie, submit some forms, etc, on blocked site.
> But site is blocked. So, it's impossible to steal something or submit
> something to this site.
>
> Conclusion: there is no security impact
>
> Post Conclusion: Guys, it's perfect you can find all these XSS/CSS bugs
> in John Doe's guest books, Read-Doc-from-CDRom servers, etc. But please
> think about _security_ impact before submitting this to _security_
> related lists.
>
> --Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 7:35:39 PM, you wrote to
> dhubbardwebsense.com:
>
>
> MPT> Websense Blocked Sites XSS
>
> MPT> Risk: High
>
> MPT> Product: Websense Enterprise v4.3.0 - v5.1 (Maybe others we only
> MPT> tested this version)
>
> MPT> Product URL: http://www.websense.com
>
> MPT> Found By: PeterT - petertimagine-sw.com
>
> MPT> Problem:
> MPT> When Websense blocks a web site, it returns a web page to the browser
> MPT> stating
> MPT> that the site has been blocked. This error message contains the URL
> which
> MPT> was
> MPT> requested. Websense does not do any validation or encoding of the URL
> before
> MPT> returning it in the error message. This allows an attacker to supply
a
> URL
> MPT> that
> MPT> contains script <JavaScript, ActiveX, VB). This script will run in
the
> MPT> context
> MPT> of a server in the trusted domain and combined with other IE flaws
can
> have
> MPT> serious consequences.
>
> MPT> We have marked this as a High risk because we believe that allowing
> MPT> attackers
> MPT> to run arbitrary programs on your desktop at will, is a serious
> problem.
>
>
> MPT> Proof of Concept:
> MPT> A URL like
> MPT> http://BlockedSite?<SCRIPT>alert('hello')</SCRIPT> will run script.
>
> MPT> Resolution:
> MPT> The vendor has come out with a patch. Notified on Nov 29, 2003.
>
> MPT> Thanks to Websense for fixing this issue.
>
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> MPT> Standard disclaimer applies. The opinions expressed in this advisory
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