<plugin_id>149</plugin_id>
<plugin_name>Microsoft Windows QotD service tcp detection</plugin_name>
<plugin_family>Misc</plugin_family>
<plugin_created_date>2004/09/06</plugin_created_date>
<plugin_created_name>Marc Ruef</plugin_created_name>
<plugin_created_email>marc dot ruef at computec dot ch</plugin_created_email>
<plugin_created_web>http://www.computec.ch</plugin_created_web>
<plugin_created_company>computec.ch</plugin_created_company>
<plugin_updated_name>Marc Ruef</plugin_updated_name>
<plugin_updated_email>marc dot ruef at computec dot ch</plugin_updated_email>
<plugin_updated_web>http://www.computec.ch</plugin_updated_web>
<plugin_updated_company>computec.ch</plugin_updated_company>
<plugin_updated_date>2004/11/13</plugin_updated_date>
<plugin_version>1.1</plugin_version>
<plugin_changelog>Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.1</plugin_changelog>
<plugin_protocol>tcp</plugin_protocol>
<plugin_port>17</plugin_port>
<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_procedure_detection>
<plugin_detection_accuracy>97</plugin_detection_accuracy>
<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.</plugin_comment>
<bug_affected>Quote of the Day TCP service</bug_affected>
<bug_not_affected>Other services</bug_not_affected>
<bug_vulnerability_class>Configuration</bug_vulnerability_class>
<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_description>
<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_solution>
<bug_fixing_time>Approx. 15 minutes</bug_fixing_time>
<bug_exploit_availability>Yes</bug_exploit_availability>
<bug_remote>Yes</bug_remote>
<bug_local>Yes</bug_local>
<bug_severity>Low</bug_severity>
<bug_popularity>8</bug_popularity>
<bug_simplicity>9</bug_simplicity>
<bug_impact>3</bug_impact>
<bug_risk>5</bug_risk>
<bug_nessus_risk>Low</bug_nessus_risk>
<bug_check_tool>All well-known security scanners are able to do a similar check.</bug_check_tool>
<source_cve>CVE-1999-0103</source_cve>
<source_nessus_id>10198</source_nessus_id>
<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_literature>
<source_misc>http://www.computec.ch</source_misc>