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Vulnerability in the License Logging Service (885834)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains if hotfix 885834 has been installed

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host.

Description :

The remote version of Windows contains a flaw in the Logging Service which
may permit a possible hacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host.

To exploit this flaw, a possible hacker would need to send a malformed packet to
the remote logging service, and would be able to either execute arbitrary
code on the remote host or to perform a denial of service.

Solution :

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

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-010.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: 12481

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

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