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Microsoft Windows Digital Signatures Denial of Service Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 13 Nov 2013 17:05 Release Date: 13 Nov 2013 3900 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Windows OS

TYPE: Windows OS

A denial of service vulnerability exists in implementations of X.509 certificate parsing that could cause an affected web service to stop responding. The vulnerability is caused when the X.509 certificate validation operation fails to handle a specially crafted X.509 certificate.


Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows RT and Windows RT 8.1

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.


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