Plugin ID | 149 |
Plugin name | Microsoft Windows QotD service tcp detection |
Plugin filename | Microsoft Windows QotD service tcp detection.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 4155 bytes |
Plugin family | Misc |
Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin created company | computec.ch |
Plugin created date | 2004/09/06 |
Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
Plugin updated date | 2004/11/13 |
Plugin version | 1.1 |
Plugin changelog | Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.1 |
Plugin protocol | tcp |
Plugin port | 17 |
Plugin procedure detection | open|sleep|close|pattern_exists "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters OR "Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long." OR "In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) OR "Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." OR "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares OR "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to OR "We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!" OR "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether OR "Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." OR "Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! OR "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted OR "It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." |
Plugin detection accuracy | 97 |
Plugin comment | It was not possible/usefull to include the whole quotes because the qotd service by Microsoft uses static linefeeds in some of them. Also some quotes don't seem to be detected correctly. |
Bug affected | Quote of the Day TCP service |
Bug not affected | Other services |
Bug vulnerability class | Configuration |
Bug description | The remote host is running the quote of the day (QotD) service. This service returns a quote for every connection. There are some default quotes on Microsoft Windows which may let indicate the installed operating system. The named service is unused these days, so it is strongly advised that you disable it, as it may be used by attackers to set up denial of services attacks against this host. |
Bug solution | The server should be deactivated or de-installed if not necessary. Under Unix systems, comment out the 'echo' line in /etc/inetd.conf and restart the inetd process. To make it harder to find the server the daemon could be configured to listen at another port (e.g. 809). Try to prevent unwanted connection attempts by filtering traffic with firewalling. Alternation of the application banner can confuse an attacker and let him determine the wrong software. |
Bug fixing time | Approx. 15 minutes |
Bug exploit availability | Yes |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | Low |
Bug popularity | 8 |
Bug simplicity | 9 |
Bug impact | 3 |
Bug risk | 5 |
Bug Nessus risk | Low |
Bug check tools | All well-known security scanners are able to do a similar check. |
Source CVE | CVE-1999-0103 |
Source Nessus ID | 10198 |
Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
Source Misc. | http://www.computec.ch |