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Merge in changes from my private branch, primarily smb-brute.nse and smb-pwdump.nse, among other smaller changes.
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description = [[
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Checks if a host is vulnerable to MS08-067, a Windows RPC vulnerability that
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can allow remote code execution. This script is intended to check for more
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can allow remote code execution. This script will be expanded to check for more
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vulnerabilities in the future.
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WARNING: These checks are dangerous, and are very likely to bring down a server.
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These should not be run in a production environment unless you (and, more importantly,
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the business) understand the risks!
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As a system administrator, performing these kinds of checks is crucial, because
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a lot more damage can be done by a worm or a hacker using this vulnerability than
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by a scanner. Penetration testers, on the other hand, might not want to use this
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script -- crashing services is not generally a good way of sneaking through a
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network.
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If you set the script parameter 'unsafe', then scripts will run that are almost
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(or totally) guaranteed to crash a vulnerable system; do NOT specify <code>unsafe</code>
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in a production environment! And that isn't to say that non-unsafe scripts will
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MS08-067 -- Checks if a host is vulnerable to MS08-067, a Windows RPC vulnerability that
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can allow remote code execution. Checking for MS08-067 is very dangerous, as the check
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is likelyto crash systems. On a fairly wide scan conducted by Brandon Enright, we determined
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is likely to crash systems. On a fairly wide scan conducted by Brandon Enright, we determined
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that on average, a vulnerable system is more likely to crash than to survive
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the check. Out of 82 vulnerable systems, 52 crashed.
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