Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4250

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-10-23 21:00:00
Last updated 2026-05-21 03:55:20
Assigner microsoft
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, Server 2008, and 7 Pre-Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request that triggers the overflow during path canonicalization, as exploited in the wild by Gimmiv.A in October 2008, aka "Server Service Vulnerability."