MS12-036: Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2685939) (uncredentialed check)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59980

Synopsis

The remote Windows host could allow arbitrary code execution.

Description

An arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability exists in the implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on the remote Windows host. The vulnerability is due to the way that RDP accesses an object in memory that has been improperly initialized or deleted.

If RDP has been enabled on the affected system, an unauthenticated, remote attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause the system to execute arbitrary code by sending a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to it.

Note that the Remote Desktop Protocol is not enabled by default.

Also note that this plugin tries to crash an affected system. It works only under the following circumstances :

1) The remote system supports SSL for RDP security, and 2) The remote system has a 64-bit Operating System, and 3) The RDP server succeeds in allocating 4-GB of paged memory.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.

See Also

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2012/ms12-036

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59980

File Name: ms12-036_dos.nbin

Version: 1.70

Type: remote

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 7/16/2012

Updated: 7/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0173

BID: 53826

IAVA: 2012-A-0092

MSFT: MS12-036

MSKB: 2685939