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>> Microsoft Internet Information Services URL Parser Code Execution (MS07-041)

Title : Microsoft Internet Information Services URL Parser Code Execution (MS07-041)
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2963
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4360
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-19


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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services), which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an error when processing specially crafted HTTP requests sent to a virtual directory that is configured with "Scripts & Executables" permissions (e.g. "/_vti_bin/"), which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash or compromise and affected server via a specially crafted request.

Affected Products

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.1

Solution

Apply patch :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=fccbfe90-f838-47df-8310-352e2fb47132

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2963
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-041.mspx

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Inge Henriksen, Jonathan Afek and Adi Sharabani (Watchfire).

ChangeLog

2005-12-19 : Initial release
2007-07-10 : Updated Solution

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