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Vulnerability in Kerberos Could Allow Denial of Service, Information Disclosure and Spoofing (899587)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the presence of update 899587

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

It is possible to crash the remote service or disclose information.

Description :

The remote host contains a version of the Kerberos protocol which is
vulnerable to multiple security flaws which may permit a possible hacker to crash
the remote service (AD), disclose information or spoof session.

A possible hacker need valid credentials to exploit those flaws.

Solution :

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

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-042.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 4
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:R/C:P/A:P/I:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 14519, 14520

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

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