National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3441

Overview

Buffer overflow in the DNS Client service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted record response. NOTE: while MS06-041 implies that there is a single issue, there are multiple vectors, and likely multiple vulnerabilities, related to (1) a heap-based buffer overflow in a DNS server response to the client, (2) a DNS server response with malformed ATMA records, and (3) a length miscalculation in TXT, HINFO, X25, and ISDN records.

Impact

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-220A

Name: TA06-220A

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#794580

Name: VU#794580

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/794580

External Source: MS

Name: MS06-041

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-041.mspx

External Source: XF

Name: dns-data-string-bo(28240)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28240

External Source: XF

Name: win-dns-client-bo(28013)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28013

External Source: XF

Name: dns-rrdatalen-underflow(24586)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24586

External Source: ISS

Name: 20060808 Microsoft DNS Client Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/235

External Source: ISS

Name: 20060808 Microsoft DNS Client ATMA Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/234

External Source: ISS

Name: 20060808 Microsoft DNS Client Character String Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/233

External Source: BID

Name: 19404

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19404

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 27844

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/27844

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3211

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3211

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016653

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016653

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21394

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21394

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:723

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:723

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:723