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Usually, unchecked buffers allow denial of service attacks as well as privilege elevation attacks. Is that the case here?

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Usually, unchecked buffers allow denial of service attacks as well as privilege elevation attacks. Is that the case here?

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It’s usually possible to mount a denial of service attack using an unchecked buffer, by simply overrunning the buffer with random data. However, because Dialer.exe runs as an application, doing so would only cause Dialer to crash, without any other disruption to the Windows NT machine.