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New vulnerability in IIS5 and IIS6

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

This afternoon, the MSRC posted a security advisory describing a newly-disclosed vulnerability in the IIS FTP service that could potentially grant remote code execution to untrusted users. You can find the advisory here. Vulnerability summary The vulnerability is a stack overflow in the FTP service when listing a long, specially-crafted directory name.

More information about the IIS authentication bypass

Monday, May 18, 2009

Security Advisory 971492 provides official guidance about the new IIS authentication bypass vulnerability. We’d like to go into more detail in this blog to help you understand: Am I at risk? If so, what could happen? How can I protect myself? Which IIS configurations are at risk? Only a specific IIS configuration is at risk from this vulnerability.