National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0840
Original release date:11/03/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) component of Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition, and the Exchange Routing Engine component of Exchange Server 2003, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious DNS response message containing length values that are not properly validated.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#394792
Name: VU#394792
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: win-ms04035-patch(17660)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: win2k3-smtp-execute-code(17621)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MS
Name: MS04-035
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 11374
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5509
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5509
Type: Tool Signature
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3460
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3460
Type: Tool Signature
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2300
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2300
Type: Tool Signature
