SMB Transaction Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2011-0661)
Severity: CRITICAL
CVE Identifier: CVE-2011-0661,MS11-020,ms11-020
Advisory Date: JUL 21, 2015
DESCRIPTION
The SMB Server service in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly validate fields in SMB requests, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed request in a (1) SMBv1 or (2) SMBv2 packet, aka "SMB Transaction Parsing Vulnerability."
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1004641
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1004641 - SMB Transaction Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2011-0661)
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- microsoft windows_2003_server
- microsoft windows_7 -
- microsoft windows_server_2003
- microsoft windows_server_2008
- microsoft windows_server_2008 -
- microsoft windows_server_2008 r2
- microsoft windows_vista
- microsoft windows_xp
- microsoft windows_xp -
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