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Local Security Policy Corruption

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains whether the hotfix Q269609 is installed

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

A local user can corrupt the remote system.

Description :

The hotfix for the 'Local Security Policy Corruption'
problem has not been applied.

This vulnerability permits a malicious user to corrupt parts of
a Windows 2000 system's local security policy, which may
prevent this host from communicating with other hosts
in this domain.

Solution :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-062.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/A:N/I:P/B:I)

Networks Security ID: 1613

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison

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