Microsoft Internet Information Services NNTP XPAT Denial Of Service Vulnerability
10
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
11/03/2004
07/25/2018
01/25/2005
03/21/2018
Description
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) NNTP server was found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack when presented with a malformed XPAT request. As a result, an unauthenticated remote attacker can crash IIS entirely.
Solution(s)
- nntp-ms-xpat-dos
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