CVE-2007-1748

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 77.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the RPC interface in the Domain Name System (DNS) Server Service in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP 4, Server 2003 SP 1, and Server 2003 SP 2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long zone name containing character constants represented by escape sequences.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: sp1, sp2

References

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2007/04/12/microsoft-security-advisory-935964-posted.aspx
http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk/modules/exploits/windows/dcerpc/msdns_zonename.rb
http://secunia.com/advisories/24871
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555920
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935964.mspx
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465863/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23470
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017910
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-103A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1366

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