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Secunia Advisory SA19606

Microsoft Windows Explorer COM Object Handling Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA19606
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Release Date 2006-04-11
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
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 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 Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-0012 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Windows Explorer when handling of COM objects. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious file server.

Successful exploitation requires that a netbios/CIFS connections can be established to a malicious system.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits NISCC.

Original Advisory
MS06-015 (KB908531):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-015.mspx

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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