From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 06:53:58 CDT

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TITLE:
Microsoft SQL Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12680

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12680/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft SQL Server 7
http://secunia.com/product/8/

DESCRIPTION:
securma massine has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing incoming
requests and can be exploited via a specially crafted request
containing 700,000 bytes of data.

Successful exploitation crashes the service.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 7.0 up to and
including Service Pack 3.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to the database services.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
securma massine

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