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Vulnerability Assessment Details

Cumulative Patch for Internet Information Services (Q327696)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains whether October 30, 2002 IIS Cumulative patches (Q327696) are installed

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web server.

Description :

The remote version of Windows contains multiple flaws in the Internet
Information Service (IIS) like Heap Overflow, DoS, XSS which may permit
a possible hacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host with the SYSTEM
rights.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for IIS 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms02-062.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Critical / CVSS Base Score : 10
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:C/A:C/I:C/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 4006, 4474, 4476, 4478, 4490, 6069, 6070, 6071, 6072

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Tenable Network Security

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