Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a stack overflow error in the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server's RPC interface implementation when processing malformed requests, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by sending a specially crafted request to a vulnerable system [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1366
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935964.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-029.mspx

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor

ChangeLog

2007-04-13 : Initial release
2007-05-08 : Updated Solution

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