"Security Fix spoke with Ben Greenbaum, a senior research manager for Internet security firm Symantec Corp., about the particulars of this flaw, and asked him what an attacker would need to do to successfully exploit this vulnerability. He told me that it was merely a matter of an attacker sending a maliciously crafted data packet to the victim's machine, and that the biggest threat from this flaw was for home users who hadn't set up any custom rules on their firewall software to block this type of traffic."

There's actually a lot more to it than that. The attacker would have to repeatedly attempt the attack in order to get lucky and execute the full attack before a random timer expires and the buffer is cleared.

At the same time, the attacker cannot just flood the machine with packets, because it will make the machine unresponsive and drop packets from the attacker.

Assuming he gets past all that, the attack is still likely to cause a bluescreen denial of service, rather than remote code execution.

More info here: http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/01/08/ms08-001-part-3-the-case-of-the-igmp-network-critical.aspx

When are they going to roll back the "Stealth" update that made the Repair function of the XP install disc USELESS?

Uh, anyone else notice that this update borks alot of folks' internet connections, until they reset settings on Windows Firewall?

Brian

I am probably one of a number of your readers who are using Windows XP Pro that they had put on a computer they brought into work to use there.

I have since left that company and now use this computer at home. Apparently, tech support at my former company put TOO MANY copies of XP Pro on folks machines and therefore previously Windows GUI software po-poed my version as not being legit.

I managed to get rid of GUI previously on my machine [abra kadabra] but windows updates keeps trying to download it again. Since I always use the 'custom install' option, along with download but do not install, how do I delete this download, so I don't have to keep looking at it every time updates show up?

thanks for good services

What can't I just pick which updates I want to download? And why is it so damn tough to find where to download them??? I HATE MICROSOFT SOFTWARE!!!

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