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TCP Channel Detection

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Detects a TCP Channel for .NET Remoting Services

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

A TCP channel is listening on the remote host.

Description :

The remote host is running a TCP-based .NET Remoting Channel Service,
aka a 'TCP channel'. .NET Remoting is an API developed by Microsoft
and used for interprocess communications, and a channel service
provides the mechanism by which such communications occur. Two
channels services are supplied as part of Microsoft's .NET Framework -
a TCP channel, which uses binary payloads, and an HTTP channel, which
uses SOAP by default.

See also :

http://www.nessus.org/u?121da8bb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Remoting

Solution :

Limit incoming traffic to this port if desired.

Network Security Threat Level:

None

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2007 Tenable Network Security

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