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CVE-2006-5614 (GCVE-0-2006-5614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-31 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:55
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Windows NAT Helper Components (ipnathlp.dll) on Windows XP SP2, when Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (svchost.exe crash) via a malformed DNS query, which results in a null pointer dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/22592 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20804 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/2006… x_refsource_MISC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2672 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017133 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4248 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.osvdb.org/30096 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2006-10-28 00:00
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