Overview
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft's Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol implementation may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Description
The Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol is an experimental protocol defined in RFC 3208. Microsoft's implementation of the PGM protocol is the Microsoft Message Queuing Services (MSMQ). A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MSMQ service that may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. An attacker may be able to send a specially-crafted message that triggers the overflow when received by a vulnerable system. |
Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker can run arbitrary code with system privileges. |
Solution
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-052.mspx
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21851/
- http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/support/articles/ref_net_ports_ms_prod.mspx
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3208.txt?number=3208
- http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/msmq/default.mspx
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Microsoft for supplying information on this vulnerability. Microsoft thanks David Warden of NuPaper Inc. for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-3442 |
| Severity Metric: | 9.95 |
| Date Public: | 2006-09-12 |
| Date First Published: | 2006-09-12 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2006-09-13 18:26 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 35 |