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Troj/Winser-C

Category
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/Winser-C is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan can be used to exploit the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) buffer overflow vulnerability (MS04-045) to gain remote shell access on Microsoft Windows servers running the WINS service.

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

MS04-045

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