Home / bulletins MS09-042 - Important: Vulnerability in Telnet Could Allow Remote Code Execution (960859) - Version:1.1
Posted on 12 August 2009
ImportantSeverity Rating: Important - Revision Note: Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Microsoft Telnet service. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain credentials and then use them to log back into affected systems. The attacker would then acquire user rights on a system identical to the user rights of the logged-on user. This scenario could ultimately result in remote code execution on affected systems. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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- MS09-042 - Version: 1.0
- MS09-042 - Version: 1.1
