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Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service Denial of Service Vulnerability (981832)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS10-024.

Insight

Insight

An error exists MS Windows Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) component, - while handling specially crafted DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records. - due to the manner in which the SMTP component handles memory allocation

Affected Software

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2K Service Pack 4 and prior. Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 and prior. Microsoft Windows 2K3 Service Pack 2 and prior. Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 Service Pack 3 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2

Solution

Solution

The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)