CVE-2011-1970 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1970?

CVE-2011-1970 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, published on 10 Aug 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The DNS server in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a query for a nonexistent domain, aka "DNS Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1970?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1970?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-1970 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2011-1970 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1970 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

• CVE-2008-0015 Microsoft Windows Video ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1701 Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2013-5065 Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2011-1268 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1868 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2003 Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2hhh-gxpg-w8vr.