National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1925
Original release date:09/08/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The TCP/IP implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 does not properly manage state information, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending packets to a listening service, and thereby triggering misinterpretation of an unspecified field as a function pointer, aka "TCP/IP Timestamps Code Execution Vulnerability."
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-251A
Name: TA09-251A
External Source: MS
Name: MS09-048
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6374
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6374
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
