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Vulnerabilities in DNS and WINS Server Could Allow Spoofing (962238)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS09-008.

Insight

Insight

- Error in the Windows DNS server may cause it to not properly reuse cached responses. - Error in the Windows DNS server may cause it to not properly cache responses to specifially crafted DNS queries. - Failure in access validation to restrict access when defining WPAD and ISATAP entries.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2K Server Service Pack 4 and prior. Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2 and prior. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 and prior.

Solution

Solution

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

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)