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MS10-024: Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service DoS (981832)

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5510

Synopsis

The remote mail server may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Windows SMTP Service is affected by at least one vulnerability :

- Incorrect parsing of DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records could cause the Windows Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) component to stop responding until the service is restarted. (CVE-2010-0024)

 - Improper allocation of memory for interpreting SMTP command responses may allow an attacker to read random e-mail message fragments stored on the affected server. (CVE-2010-0025)

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and 2008.

See Also

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-024.mspx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5510

Family: SMTP Servers

Published: 4/13/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 45511, 45517

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0024, CVE-2010-0025

BID: 39381