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Vulnerability in MSDTC Could Allow Denial of Service (913580)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the presence of update 913580

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

It is possible to crash the remote MSDTC service.

Description :

The remote version of Windows contains a version of MSDTC which is
vulnerable to several denial of service vulnerabilities (DoS and
Invalid Memory Access).

A possible hacker may exploit these flaws to crash the remote service.

Solution :

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

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-018.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.0
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/I:P/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 17905, 17906

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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