SB2022030820 - Denial of service in Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
Published: March 8, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022030820
Severity
Medium
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) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23253)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.