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MS08-001 (part 2) – The case of the Moderate ICMP mitigations

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

This is the second post in the three-part series covering MS08-001. In this post we’ll look at the ICMP vulnerability (CVE-2007-0066) in more detail. This vulnerability is caused by Windows TCP/IP’s handling of the ICMP protocol, specifically regarding router advertisement messages. This post covers the mitigating factors for this vulnerability in more detail.