CVE-2008-6194

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

Memory leak in the DNS server in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via DNS packets. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-3898.

Memory leak in the DNS server in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via DNS packets. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-3898.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2009-02-19 18:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:57:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows

References

20080508 Re: After 6 months - fix available for Microsoft DNS cache poisoning attack

20080508 Re: After 6 months - fix available for Microsoft DNS cache poisoning attack

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