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Microsoft Windows Plug-and-Play Service Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA16372
Release Date: 2005-08-09
Last Update: 2005-11-21
Popularity: 24,661 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
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 Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
ISS X-Force has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an boundary error in the Plug-and-Play service and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation allows malicious users to gain escalated privileges. On Windows 2000, the vulnerability can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary code without requiring valid user credentials. On Windows XP systems (prior to SP2), the vulnerability can be exploited via the "Guest" account when "Simple File Sharing" is enabled and the system is not joined to a domain.

NOTE: Exploit code is publicly available.

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