MS07-063 addresses a weakness in the SMBv2 message signing algorithm. SMB signing is a feature enabled by default on domain controllers to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. As you can imagine, if an attacker on your local subnet can tamper with the SMB network traffic between your domain controller and domain-joined clients, they can cause all kind …
MS07-065 fixed a vulnerability in the Message Queueing service. On Windows 2000, a remote anonymous attacker could use this vulnerability to run code as local system on unpatched machines. Windows XP added defense-in-depth hardening to disallow remote access for this service that does not need to be exposed remotely. So on Windows XP, the attacker …
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