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MS08-001 (part 3) – The case of the IGMP network critical

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

This is the final post in the three-part series covering MS08-001. In this post we’ll look at the IGMP vulnerability (CVE-2007-0069) and why we think successful exploitation for remote code execution is not likely. This vulnerability is around Windows’ handling of the IGMP and MLD protocols. These two protocols are used to control multicast traffic over IPv4 and IPv6 networks, enabling hosts to advertise their intention to send & receive multicast traffic.