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w3who.dll overflow and XSS

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the presence of w3who.dll

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The Windows 2000 Resource Kit ships with a DLL that displays
the browser client context. It lists security identifiers,
rights and $ENV variables.

Nessus has acertaind that this file is installed on the remote host.

The w3who.dll ISAPI may permit a possible hacker to execute arbitrary commands
on this host, through a buffer overflow, or to mount XSS attacks.

See also : http://www.exaprobe.com/labs/advisories/esa-2004-1206.html
Solution : Delete this file
Risk Factor : High

Networks Security ID: 11820

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Nicolas Gregoire

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