Windows 2000 NNTP Denial of Service Vulnerability Patch

Prevent malicious users from disrupting the operation of your server.
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  • Free
  • Publisher Name:
  • Microsoft
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.microsoft.com/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows 2000
  • File Size:
  • 752.59K

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Windows 2000 NNTP Denial of Service Vulnerability Patch Description

This update resolves a denial of service vulnerability in Windows 2000 computers running the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) service. This denial of service vulnerability exists because the NNTP service in Windows 2000 contains a memory leak. If a malicious user sends a large amount of specially malformed data to an affected server, it can deplete the memory that is available to the server, which can cause the server to stop performing.


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