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Microsoft DCE-RPC Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Microsoft DCE-RPC Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/18/2003
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2004
Modified
03/18/2014

Description

Your system may require one or more security patches or hotfixes from Microsoft.

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly execute code on a remote system. The protocol itself is derived from the Open Software Foundation (OSF) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions. There is a vulnerability in the part of RPC that deals with message exchange over TCP/IP. The failure results because of incorrect handling of malformed messages. This particular vulnerability affects a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface with RPC, which listens on TCP/IP port 135. This interface handles DCOM object activation requests that are sent by client machines (such as Universal Naming Convention (UNC) paths) to the server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability would be able to run code with Local System privileges on an affected system. The attacker would be able to take any action on the system, including installing programs, viewing changing or deleting data, or creating new accounts with full privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially formed request to the remote computer on port 135.

For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/FQ03-026.asp.

Solution(s)

  • install-microsoft-patch-e40a765e027d931f8aa97f3f46dd3cd1
  • install-microsoft-patch-19c8259be42a65b4a4028278ea9ed166
  • install-microsoft-patch-3372bea9608be76042683d40af7a5bdb
  • WINDOWS-HOTFIX-MS03-026-c07daeae-e305-4955-95ab-4d318831a111
  • WINDOWS-HOTFIX-MS03-026-55703c2c-76e8-4e56-967e-5eff9cc9b9d7
  • WINDOWS-HOTFIX-MS03-026-d07d1e4c-f4f7-4cc4-b5fd-4a99c196829f

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