http://praetorianprefect.com Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:46:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/windows-smb-crash-video/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/windows-smb-crash-video/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:27:07 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2997 on November 11th, 2009 we confirmed Laurent Gaffié's remote exploit for Windows that causes a kernel crash. The operating system actually freezes creating a denial of service when for example a user is tricked into clicking on a link to a malicious SMB share on a web page. The SMB client goes into an infinite loop when processing this malformed request according to Microsoft. The video below demonstrates this effect, having a user click a web site link and showing the crash.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/windows-smb-crash-video/feed/ 7