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Windows Media Services Remote Denial of Service

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for MS04-008

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

It is possible to crash the remote Media Service.

Description :

The remote host appears to be vulnerable to a remote
Denial of Service Attack (DoS) against the Media Services
component. A possible hacker, in exploiting this bug, would
render the Media Services component as unresponsive.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows 2000 :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-008.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/A:C/I:N/B:A)

Networks Security ID: 9825

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