Denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows

Description

An improper handling of authentication requests in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) was found in Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause a denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed authentication request.

Original advisories

• MS17-004

• CVE-2017-0004

Related products

• Microsoft-Windows-Vista-4
• Microsoft-Windows-7
• Microsoft-Windows-Server-2008

CVE list

• CVE-2017-0004
  critical

KB list

• 3216775

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