CVE-2008-6194

Published Feb 19, 2009

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Memory leak in the DNS server in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via DNS packets. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-3898.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.8
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2CF61F35-5905-4BA9-AD7E-7DB261D2F256"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References