Sunday, November 15, 2009

Microsoft Investigates Reported Issue In SMB Protocol

Microsoft has released a security advisory in which they tell that they are investigating reported DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The security advisory states that reported vulnerability can't be used to take control of the system or install malicious software on it.

Affected operating systems are Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (for x64-based systems & for Itanium-based systems).

More information:
Microsoft Security Advisory (977544)
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog

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