On 5 Dec 2000, at 15:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> (I don't know exactly which bug it was that was exploited, but according to the
> NAI spokesperson, it was something for which a patch was issued on Nov 7th,
> which was a rather long time ago in security terms.)

Hmm, according to the Microsoft Security Bulletin list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) nothing was 
issued on that date, although the day before there was a patch for IIS5 for 
"Web Server File Request Parsing" Vulnerability (MS00-086) which allows 
the running of "operating system commands" on the affected server.

Dan

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