In article <ssSdnbDZtKRFlLaiU-KYuQ@seg.net>,
nobody@atdon'tbothertowrite.com says...
> <Quote>
> In its advisory, CERT recommends that customers apply the Microsoft patch
> and, as well, block network traffic on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
> ports 135, 139, and 445, which are used by the RPC service. <END>
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111856,00.asp
>

Wow it's only taken CERT & PC World two weeks to catch up. Microsoft
release a bulletin and patch for this on July 16, 2003.

See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026: Buffer Overrun In RPC
Interface Could Allow Code Execution(Q823980)
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp> for
details.

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