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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2009-2532

High
10/10

Summary

Microsoft Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2, and Windows 7 RC do not properly process the command value in an SMB Multi-Protocol Negotiate Request packet, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SMBv2 packet to the Server service, aka "SMBv2 Command Value Vulnerability."

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  • NETWORK
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CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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