Microsoft Local Security Authority Subsystem Service CVE-2017-0004 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description

This security update corrects a denial of service in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) caused when an unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. A remote attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service on the target system's LSASS service, which triggers an automatic reboot of the system.

Affected Applications

Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista Service Pack 2
Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2

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