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WindowsNT DNS flood denial

Article ID: 10312
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
Views: 368
Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

WindowsNT DNS flood denial

This script is Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

FamilyDNS
Plugin ID10312
Bugtraq ID
CVE IDCVE-1999-0275

Description:
We could make the
remote DNS server crash by flooding it
with characters. It must be the WindowsNT
DNS server.

Crashing the DNS server could allow
an attacker to make your network
non-functional, or even to use some
DNS spoofing techniques to gain
privileges on the network.

Solution : install the SP3.

Risk factor : High
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