Vulnerability Note VU#471260

Overview

The Windows Logon process (Winlogon) contains a vulnerability that may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Description

The Windows logon process (Winlogon) containss a buffer overflow vulnerability during the processeing of the domain value. It fails to perform checks on the size of the domain value used during the logon process before inserting it into a fixed-size buffer. Microsoft notes that systems that are not members of a domain are not affected by this vulnerability. The following systems are affected by this vulnerability: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft notes that "An attacker would require permission to modify user objects in a domain to attempt to exploit this vulnerability. Typically, only members of the Administrators or Account Operators groups would have this permission. However, this permission may have been delegated to other user accounts in the domain."

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code on the system.

Solution

Apply a patch from the vendor Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011 contains patch information to resolve this issue.

Systems Affected (Learn More)

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Microsoft Corporation	Affected	-	13 Apr 2004

If you are a vendor and your product is affected, let us know.

CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	N/A	N/A
Temporal	N/A	N/A
Environmental	N/A	N/A

References

• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx

Credit

Thanks to Microsoft for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jason A Rafail.

Other Information

• CVE IDs: CAN-2003-0806
• Date Public: 13 Apr 2004
• Date First Published: 13 Apr 2004
• Date Last Updated: 13 Apr 2004
• Severity Metric: 13.50
• Document Revision: 6