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



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
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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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