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Microsoft Internet Information Services SMTP DNS Resolving Buffer Overflow

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Microsoft Internet Information Services SMTP DNS Resolving Buffer Overflow

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/03/2004
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/25/2005
Modified
12/04/2013

Description

Certain versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services SMTP server do not correctly parse resolved IP addresses returned from DNS query results. As a result, a malicious user with the ability to control the DNS replies for their own hostname can crash the service or potentially execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege.

Solution(s)

  • smtp-iis-dns-resolving-bof

References

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