Windows Remote Desktop Service Open to DoS Attacks
Filed in: Security — July 16th, 2005
The newly discovered security vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Service could let attacker remotely crash computers. Microsoft is working on the patch and scheduled to release in August 2005.
The flaw affects the Windows Remote Desktop Service, which lets users access their Windows PC from a remote location. An attacker could remotely exploit the problem to crash a victim’s PC in what’s known as a denial-of-service attack, according to a posting on the Security Protocols Web site earlier this week. The user would then see the Windows “blue screen of death.”
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July 17th, 2005 at 2:38 am
This is not new. It’s been discussed on mailing lists for some time now.