Microsoft SQL 2000 Slammer Worm Denial of Service (CVE-2002-0649)

Slammer is a memory resident worm targeted to attack Microsoft SQL 2000. By propagating rapidly, the worm can cause a denial of service condition on affected targets...

Security Threats Increasing in Sophistication and Precision

IBM’s X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk report showed that as vulnerability disclosures hit their highest level ever in 2010, security threats continued to increase in sophistication and precision. Like the term or not, 2010 may well have been the year of the APT, the term has become familiar to nearly...

CVE-2002-0649

Multiple buffer overflows in the Resolution Service for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Desktop Engine 2000 MSDE allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via UDP packets to port 1434 in which 1 a 0x04 byte that causes the SQL Monitor thread to generate...