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Troj/SqlHello-A

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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 18 December 2005 00:35:53 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/SqlHello-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan can be used to exploit the SQL buffer overflow vulnerability (MS02-056) to gain remote shell access on Microsoft Windows servers running SQL Server or MSDE (Microsoft Desktop Engine).

A patch is available from Microsoft for the SQL buffer overflow vulnerability at:

MS02-056

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