National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2550
Original release date:08/11/2010
Last revised:09/17/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The SMB Server in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 does not properly validate fields in an SMB request, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SMB packet, aka "SMB Pool Overflow 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: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 Technical Alert: TA10-222A
Name: TA10-222A
External Source: MS
Name: MS10-054
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11106
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11106
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
