<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows DNS when it fails to properly handle queries. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS service to become nonresponsive.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send malicious DNS queries to a target, resulting in a denial of service.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DNS processes queries.</p>

Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.23 and 11.x before 11.4.402.265 on Windows and Mac OS X, before 10.3.183.23 and 11.x before 11.2.202.238 on Linux, before 11.1.111.16 on Android 2.x and 3.x, and before 11.1.115.17 on Android 4.x; Adobe AIR before 3.4.0.2540; and Adobe AIR SDK before 3.4.0.2540 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a logic error during handling of Firefox dialogs.

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library improperly handles web requests, aka '.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability'.

The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request.

The Network Threat Protection module in the Manager component in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0.600x through 11.0.700x on Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web-server outage, or daemon crash or hang) via a flood of packets that triggers automated blocking of network traffic.

The server in Kerberos in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and reboot) via a crafted session request, aka "Kerberos NULL Dereference Vulnerability."

The Remote Administration Protocol (RAP) implementation in the LanmanWorkstation service in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle RAP responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service hang) via crafted RAP packets, aka "Remote Administration Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability."

CA ARCserve Backup r12.0 through SP2, r12.5 before SP2, r15 through SP1, and r16 before SP1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service shutdown) via a crafted network request.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Layer component in Oracle Database Server 10.2.0.3, 10.2.0.4, 10.2.0.5, 11.1.0.7, 11.2.0.2, and 11.2.0.3, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1747.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via JavaScript code that creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values, and then appends long strings to the content of a P element, related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

A Windows NT account policy has inappropriate, security-critical settings for lockout, e.g. lockout duration, lockout after bad logon attempts, etc.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element, and performs certain other string concatenation and substring operations, related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

The DNS server in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 does not properly handle objects in memory during record lookup, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via a crafted query, aka "DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 does not properly compare index values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via crafted requests to a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application, aka ".NET Framework Index Comparison Vulnerability."

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

Denial of service through Winpopup using large user names.

Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) 2004 SP1, 2006 SP1, 2009, and 2010 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SNA Server service outage) via crafted TCP or UDP traffic, aka "Endless Loop DoS in snabase.exe Vulnerability."

The DNS server in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a query for a nonexistent domain, aka "DNS Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Windows NT crashes or locks up when a Samba client executes a "cd .." command on a file share.

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Gold, Update 1, Update 2, and SP1 does not properly validate session cookies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IIS outage) via unspecified network traffic, aka "Null Session Cookie Crash."

Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) 2004 SP1, 2006 SP1, 2009, and 2010 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SNA Server service outage) via crafted TCP or UDP traffic, aka "Access of Unallocated Memory DoS Vulnerability."

Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Foundation component in Oracle Database Server 10.1.0.5, 10.2.0.4, 10.2.0.5, 11.1.0.7, 11.2.0.1, and 11.2.0.2, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors.

The server in Microsoft Active Directory on Windows Server 2003 SP2 does not properly handle an update request for a service principal name (SPN), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (authentication downgrade or outage) via a crafted request that triggers name collisions, aka "Active Directory SPN Validation Vulnerability."

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed 0x08 packet that is missing a colon separator.

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP9, 9.5 before FP6, and 9.7 before FP2 on Windows Server 2008 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (trap) via vectors involving "special group and user enumeration."

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) before 3.0.6, and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unknown vectors.

Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) before 3.0.6, and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to a "JS method issue."

Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) before 3.0.6, and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to an "input validation issue."

IIS 4.05 and 5.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long, complex URL that appears to contain a large number of file extensions, aka the "Malformed Extension Data in URL" vulnerability.

The npb_protocol_error function in sna V5router64 in IBM Communications Server for Windows 6.1.3 and Communications Server for AIX (aka CSAIX or CS/AIX) in sna.rte before 6.3.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via APPC data containing a GDSID variable with a GDS length that is too small.

Memory leak in SNMP agent in Windows NT 4.0 before SP5 allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of queries.

Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, when configured with multiple TCP/IP stacks bound to the same MAC address, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a certain ICMP echo (ping) packet, which causes all stacks to send a ping response, aka TCP Chorusing.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not initialize certain data structures during execution of the createElement method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by setting the (1) outerHTML or (2) value property of an object returned by createElement.

cfnetwork.dll 1.450.5.0 in CFNetwork, as used by safari.exe 531.21.10 in Apple Safari 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

cfnetwork.dll 1.450.5.0 in CFNetwork, as used by safari.exe 531.21.10 in Apple Safari 4.0.4 on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the SRC attribute of a (1) IMG or (2) IFRAME element.

The SMTP component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, and Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Exchange Server 2003 SP2, does not properly parse MX records, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a crafted response to a DNS MX record query, aka "SMTP Server MX Record Vulnerability."

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22, JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_27, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted DER encoded data, which is not properly decoded by the ASN.1 DER input stream parser, aka Bug Id 6864911.

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22, JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_27, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted HTTP headers, which are not properly parsed by the ASN.1 DER input stream parser, aka Bug Id 6864911.

Unspecified vulnerability in the TLS dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 and 1.2.1, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors related to TLS 1.2 conversations.

The popen API function in TSRM/tsrm_win32.c in PHP before 5.2.11 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1, when running on certain Windows operating systems, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) "e" or (2) "er" string in the second argument (aka mode), possibly related to the _fdopen function in the Microsoft C runtime library. NOTE: this might not cross privilege boundaries except in rare cases in which the mode argument is accessible to an attacker outside of an application that uses the popen function.

Blocks/Common/Src/Configuration/Manageability/Adm/AdmContentBuilder.cs in Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library (aka EntLib) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an input string composed of many \ (backslash) characters followed by a " (double quote), related to a certain regular expression, aka a "ReDoS" vulnerability.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash). NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected, and that the impact is CPU consumption and application hang in unspecified circumstances perhaps involving other platforms.

Microsoft Communicator allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application or device outage) via instant messages containing large numbers of emoticons.

The user interface event dispatcher in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a series of keypress, click, onkeydown, onkeyup, onmousedown, and onmouseup events. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 is also affected.

A certain ActiveX control in adsiis.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a long string in the second argument to the GetObject method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.

A certain ActiveX control in the Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Helper COM Component in iashlpr.dll allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a large integer value in the first argument to the PutProperty method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator, and Windows Live Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) receiver report packet.

The DebugDiag ActiveX control in CrashHangExt.dll, possibly 1.0, in Microsoft Debug Diagnostic Tool allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and Internet Explorer 6.0 crash) via a large negative integer argument to the GetEntryPointForThread method. NOTE: this issue might only be exploitable in limited environments or non-default browser settings.

Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability