SB2011080901 - Denial of service in Microsoft RDP
Published: August 9, 2011 Updated: March 14, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011080901
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1968)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS conditions on the target system.The weakness exists due to an error in the Remote Desktop Protocol when processing a sequence of malicious packets. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted RDP packets, gain access to an object that was not properly initialized or is deleted and cause the system to stop responding and restart.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.