CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0024
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The SMTP component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, and Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Exchange Server 2003 SP2, does not properly parse MX records, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a crafted response to a DNS MX record query, aka "SMTP Server MX Record Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows xp
• microsoft windows 2003 server
• microsoft windows server 2003
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft exchange server 2000
• microsoft exchange server 2003
• microsoft exchange server 2007
• microsoft exchange server 2010
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-024 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7067 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-024 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7067 Third Party Advisory