Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which couldbe exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of anaffected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in theServer service that does not properly handle malformed requets, whichcould be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands bysending specially crafted packets to a vulnerable system.
Affected Products
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Solution
Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-040.mspx
