National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3229
Original release date:10/13/2010
Last revised:10/05/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Secure Channel (aka SChannel) security package in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, when IIS 7.x is used, does not properly process client certificates during SSL and TLS handshakes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (LSASS outage and reboot) via a crafted packet, aka "TLSv1 Denial of Service Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-285A
Name: TA10-285A
External Source: MS
Name: MS10-085
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 43780
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113338
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6806
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6806
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
