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MS04-007: ASN.1 parsing vulnerability (828028)

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FamilyWindows : Microsoft Bulletins
Nessus Plugin ID12052 (smb_nt_ms04-007.nasl)
Bugtraq ID9633
9635
13300
CVE IDCVE-2003-0818

Description:
Synopsis :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host.

Description :

The remote Windows host has a ASN.1 library which is vulnerable to a
flaw which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on this host.

To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted
ASN.1 encoded packet (either an IPsec session negotiation, or an HTTPS request)
with improperly advertised lengths.

A public code is available to exploit this flaw.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-007.mspx

Risk factor :

Critical / CVSS Base Score : 10.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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