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AA-2006.0102 -- [Win] -- Vulnerability in Windows Workstation Service may allow remote denial of service

Date: 28 December 2006

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AA-2006.0102                  AUSCERT Advisory

                                   [Win]
          Vulnerability in Windows Workstation Service may allow
                         remote denial of service
                             28 December 2006
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        AusCERT Advisory Summary
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Product:              Microsoft Windows
Operating System:     Windows XP
                      Windows 2000
Impact:               Denial of Service
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2006-6723
Member content until: Thursday, January 25 2007

OVERVIEW

        A flaw in Windows Workstation Service handling of large RPC requests
        could allow a remote attacker to exhaust system resources leading
        to a denial of service. A proof of concept has been publicly released
        for this vulnerability.


IMPACT

        If this attack was successfully exploited the victim machine would
        devote all available processor time and memory to handling the
        malicious RPC request. This would lead to a denial of service.


MITIGATION

        At the current time there is no patch to fix this vulnerability,
        however blocking access to TCP ports 139 and 445 may protect against
        it [1]. Note that these ports may be required for file and printer
        sharing.


REFERENCES

        [1] US-CERT Current Activity
            http:/www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#mswksdos

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