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Server Service Vulnerability

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6093

The Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 XP SP2 and SP3 Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 Vista Gold and SP1 Server 2008 and 7 Pre-Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request that triggers the overflow during path canonicalization as exploited in the wild by Gimmiv.A in October 2008 aka "Server Service Vulnerability."

Family:
windows
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
  • Microsoft Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
  • CVE-2008-4250
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