RE: [inbox] W2K source "leaked"? [Archief]

Curt Purdy

16/02/04, 22:05

Gadi Evron wrote:

> I never believed in 0-days.
<snip>
> but now... I don't know.

I can assure you 0-days do and have existed for a long time. In the past the
true l33t h4x0rs would turn their creations over to the kiddies when they
came up with something better to use. Today they do it when a patch has
been released or is immanent. In fact today, they are often nicely
pre-compiled.

I had a copy of dcom.exe several days prior to MS releasing the RPC patch.
Within a day of the release, it was all over irc and even some lists. I
don't think many people realize how many tens or even hundreds of thousands
of zombies were created by all the kiddies typeing dcom.exe as fast as their
little fingers could go. MSBlast was likely the best thing that could have
happened to force patching before the boxes were hijacked and patched by an
intruder.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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Ho Chaw Ming

16/02/04, 22:25

Well. the code doesn't exactly compile. A leak is a leak, and source isn't
exactly like binaries. You can see trojans if they exist.

----- Original Message -----
From: <LordInfidel@directionweb.com>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:47 AM
Subject: RE: W2K source "leaked"?

Just a thought:

Has anyone given any consideration that maybe this source is trojanized?

It's obviously pirated, since MS probably did not release it to the general
public.
(At least they have not made a public announcement to that effect, unless I
am mistaken
and that is always a possibility)

Not to mention, how are you going to guarantee it's validity? I can bet
there are no
official MS MD5 checksums to verify against what is contained in the
package.

Maybe we should step back for a second and take a closer look, apply some
rational reasoning, rather then getting caught up in the hype.

JMO

LordInfidel

-----Original Message-----
From: Víctor [mailto:ixnay@infonegocio.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:47 PM
To: tlarholm@pivx.com
Cc: ge@egotistical.reprehensible.net; bugtraq@securityfocus.com;
full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Subject: Re: W2K source "leaked"?

Check this out

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~mortehu/files.txt

This seem the dir of the Windows source code, I dont know if it a hoax.

And here is a torrent where it seem to be the source
http://www.skittlebrau.org/ring0_src.tar.bz2.torrent

This is all the information I have until now

Regards

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:59:22 -0800
<tlarholm@pivx.com> wrote:

> This is not the first time that people have reported leaked copies of
> Windows source code. In 2000, Wired News reported that the source code
> for Whistler (now Windows XP) had been leaked, though they never
> confirmed it.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35135,00.html
>
> WinBeta is also reporting on the new leak
>
> http://www.winbeta.org/winbeta/forums/index.php?showtopic=2663&st=0&#ent
> ry9449
>
> 0-day exploits being used on Microsofts network, foul play by privileged
> partners or a hoax? Let's see what Microsoft reports.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@egotistical.reprehensible.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:49 PM
> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
> Cc: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com; Thor Larholm
> Subject: W2K source "leaked"?
>
>
> A couple of days ago a friend of mine drew my attention to the source
> making rounds on the encrypted p2p networks, I was hoping it would take
> a bit longer for it to be "out", but that was just day-dreaming.
>
> Thor Larholm just gave me this URL, as you can notice, the server is
> busy: http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509
>
> I never believed in 0-days. "New" or more to the point
> un-known-to-the-public exploits and vulnerabilities exist and are being
> used.
> In my opinion "0-days" virtually don't exist. It's usually either some
> vulnerability that is long known and a COP or a worm is created. Or
> exploits that will nearly never see the "public" but exist and are used
> by few individuals.. but now... I don't know.
>
> How often does a brand new exploit come out without prior warning and
> "attack" the net?
>
> *If* this really is the.. _real_ source code for W2K (and according to
> the article NT4 as well).... we'll see what happens next.
>
> People didn't need help finding vulnerabilities in Windows before, but
> it just became a whole lot easier and a lot less demanding on the "m4d
> #4x0r 5k111z".
>
> I can't really say that the article is right and the source was "leaked"
>
> or "stolen". The source is being sold/given (?) for years now to EDU's
> and commercial companies for research purposes (not to mention China..).
>
> I suppose foul play is always possible.
>
> Can anyone confirm this is the real source code? How about a press
> release? :)
>
> Gadi Evron
>

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