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Vulnerability: MS08-060. Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957280)
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| Details | |
|---|---|
| Vulnerability name/brief description | Vulnerability: MS08-060. Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957280) |
| CVE/CAN name | CVE-2008-4023 |
| Vendor threat level | Critical |
| SophosLabs threat level | Medium |
| Solution | Apply the vendor patch for MS08-060 |
| Vendor description | This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in implementations of Active Directory on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker gains access to an affected network. This vulnerability only affects Microsoft Windows 2000 servers configured to be domain controllers. If a Microsoft Windows 2000 server has not been promoted to a domain controller, it will not be listening to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) queries, and will not be exposed to this vulnerability. |
| SophosLabs comments | This vulnerability affects a relatively small number of software platforms that must be configured in a special way to expose the vulnerability. Also it appears that denial of service attacks are more likely to be successful than remote code execution. SophosLabs have so far seen no samples of malware attempting to use this attack and so rate this vulnerability as Medium threat. |
| SophosLabs testing result | N/A |
| Currently known exploits | At the time of writing SophosLabs has seen no samples of malware attempting to exploit this vulnerability. Should this situation change samples will be analyzed and we will take action as necessary. |
| First sample seen | N/A |
| Discovery date | October 14, 2008 |
| Affected software | Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 |
| References | http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-060.mspx http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4023 |
| Credits | Microsoft |
| Revisions | 15th October 2008 - initial analysis written |
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- Article ID: 47260
- Created: 15 Oct 2008
- Last updated: 21 Oct 2008
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