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Sid
17702

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in windows 2000.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
PNP_GetDeviceList (upnp_getdevicelist) in UPnP for Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and earlier, and possibly Windows XP SP1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a DCE RPC request that specifies a large output buffer size, a variant of CVE-2006-6296, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2120.

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Affected Systems:
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 

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Attack Scenarios:
Format string vulnerabilities can be very simple to attack. Any program that reads a format string as an input parameter can be exploited if the argument can be controlled by the attacker.

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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2005-3644:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2005-3644
 
Common Weakness Enumeration:
http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/134.html
 
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification:
http://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/100.html

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