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Secunia Advisory SA16356

Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA16356
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Release Date 2005-08-09
Last Update 2005-11-21
   
Popularity 30,470 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Privilege escalation
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
   
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-1984 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unchecked buffer in spoolsv.exe. This can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code by people or users, who can connect to the service.

According to Microsoft, this can only be exploited to cause a DoS on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Kostya Kortchinsky, CERT Renater.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS05-043 (KB896423):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-043.mspx

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