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Whats the scope of the vulnerability?

April 26, 2017SCOPE vulnerability

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Whats the scope of the vulnerability?

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This is a Denial of Service vulnerability. A malicious user could exploit the vulnerability to cause the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) service on a remote Windows 2000 Server to crash. An affected RPC service will stop responding to client requests. The computers at greatest risk from this vulnerability are Windows 2000 servers that are directly exposed on the Internet. Computers that are protected by a firewall where the security best practice of blocking incoming and outgoing traffic on ports 135-139 and 445 are protected from attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 computers are not affected by this vulnerability.