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Vulnerability in DirectPlay Could Allow Denial of Service (839643)
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
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the implementation of the IDirectPlay4 application programming interface (API) of Microsoft DirectPlay because of a lack of robust packet validation.
Solution
Solution
The vendor has released updates, please see the references for more information.