Perhaps the disabling of raw sockets in SP2 is the cause of this problem.
Try this.

Net stop SharedAccess

Then try running the Python code and see if it still crashes.

Afterwards you can restart the SharedAccess service. Cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: azurIt [mailto:azurit (at) pobox (dot) sk [email concealed]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:06 PM
To: bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Re: Possible windows+python bug

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:21:18PM -0000, liquid (at) cyberspace (dot) org [email concealed]
wrote:
> > Start Python and type (of course x.x.x.x should be replaced with
> > IP address):
> >
> > import socket
> > s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_RAW,4)
> > s.sendto("",("x.x.x.x",0))
> >
> > Press ENTER and your win box should crash immediately.
>
> I tested this on WinXP SP2 with Python 2.4. The result is an
> exception:
>
> socket.error: (10022, 'Invalid argument')
>
> I don't have Python 2.3 installed otherwise I would test that too.
>
> Neil
>

i got the same exception, WinXP SP2, Python 2.3.4 .

azurIt

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