Windows Vulnerable to DoS Attack
Tuesday July 19, 2005
A vulnerability has been discovered by Tom Ferris, aka badpack3t, at Security-Protocols.com which can crash the Windows operating system and cause a potential denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated as Moderately Critical by Secunia, Microsoft has acknowledged that they are investigating the vulnerability. badpack3t posted a screenshot on the Security-Protocols.com web site demonstrating the error message displayed when the vulnerability is exploited. For more about the vulnerability, see this Secunia Advisory or read this article from Yahoo News.
