Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: [EEYEB-20050523] Windows Kernel APC Data-FreeLocal Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

[Tom Ferris <tommy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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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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