SB2017052911 - Denial of service in Microsoft Windows
Published: May 29, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017052911
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
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: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to incorrect filtration of input data. A remote attacker can create HTML containing a specially crafted file reference (to c:\$MFT\) that, when loaded by the target user via Internet Explorer (and possibly other browsers), will cause the target system to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.