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MS12-017 - Important : Vulnerability in DNS Server Could Allow Denial of Service (2647170) - Version: 1.1

Posted on 19 April 2012

Important

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (April 18, 2012): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2647170 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary and corrected the bulletin replacement information for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems. This is a bulletin change only. There were no changes to the detection.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a remote unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted DNS query to the target DNS server.

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• MS12-017 - Version: 1.0
• MS12-017 - Version: 1.1

 

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