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Secunia Advisory SA13466

Microsoft Windows WINS "Name" Validation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA13466
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Release Date 2004-12-14
Last Update 2004-12-17
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact System access
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0567 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2004-1080 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Kostya Kortchinsky has reported two vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, allowing malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) The vulnerability is caused due to an unchecked buffer in the handling of the "Name" parameter from certain packets. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and lead to execution of arbitrary code.

2) This update also fixes a previously described vulnerability, for more information:
SA13328


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Kostya Kortchinsky, CERT Renater

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS04-045 (KB870763):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-045.mspx

Other references
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