Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003
CVE-2012-0006
The DNS server in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 does not properly handle objects in memory during record lookup, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via a crafted query, aka "DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability."
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.311 (98.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.311 · newest: 0.311 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/48394 (third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-017 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/52374 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15098 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-073A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- osvdb.org/80005 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)