CVE-2010-4562 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4562?

CVE-2010-4562 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 2 Feb 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Windows 2008, 7, Vista, 2003, 2000, and XP, when using IPv6, allows remote attackers to determine whether a host is sniffing the network by sending an ICMPv6 Echo Request to a multicast address and determining whether an Echo Reply is sent, as demonstrated by thcping. NOTE: due to a typo, some sources map CVE-2010-4562 to a ProFTPd mod_sql vulnerability, but that issue is covered by CVE-2010-4652.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4562?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4562?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4562 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2010-4562 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4562 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-752v-qjgq-xgm6.