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[SA11077] Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Media Services Denial of Service

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 14:08:20 CST

TITLE:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Media Services Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11077

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11077/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

DESCRIPTION:
Qualys has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Media Services,
allowing malicious people to cause a Denial of Service against the
Media Services.

The problem is that Windows Media Station Service, Windows Media
Monitor Service, and Windows Media Services fails to handle a
malicious crafted sequence of TCP packets sent to the services. This
causes the services to stop responding.

This affects Windows Media Services 4.1 which is included with
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.

SOLUTION:
A patch is available:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7F4C067C-5D34-48FB-A9FA-C2200243D4D2&displaylang=en

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Qualys

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-008.mspx

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