Patch Available for "Spoofed Route Pointer" Vulnerability

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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
            ESB-1999.148 -- Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS99-38)
          Patch Available for "Spoofed Route Pointer" Vulnerability
                              21 September 1999

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Microsoft Corporation has released the following security bulletin
concerning a vulnerability in the anti-source routing feature of
Windows NT 4 service pack 5 and 9X operating systems.  By manipulating
information within the route pointer of a data packet, it is possible
to bypass the anti-source routing feature. The patch described in
the bulletin also allows single-homed machines to disable source
routed packets:

       http://www.microsoft.com/Security/Bulletins/MS99-038.asp


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Microsoft Corporation directly.

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