Title: Windows NT DNS Resolution Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
A vulnerabilty has been discovered in the Windows NT DNS resolver code. It has been reported that a remote user may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition in an application linking to the code. This condition likely occurs due to insufficient sanity checking of user-supplied data.
By exploiting this issue to overwrite sensitive locations in memory, it may be possible to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of application implementing the vulnerable code.
The precise technical details regarding this vulnerable are not currently known. This BID will be updated if more information becomes available.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
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