Full Disclosure: Re: Microsoft MSDTC NdrAllocate Validation Vulnerability

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Shouldnt this be considered low risk and not medium?

On Wed, 10 May 2006 17:01:09 -0700 Avert <avert () avertlabs com> 
wrote:
> McAfee, Inc.
> McAfee Avert(tm) Labs Security Advisory
> Public Release Date: 2006-05-09
>
> Microsoft MSDTC NdrAllocate Validation Vulnerability
>
> CVE-2006-0034
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>
> *      Synopsis
>
> There is an RPC procedure within the MSDTC interface in 
> msdtcprx.dll
> that may be called remotely without user credentials in such a way 
> that
> triggers a denial-of-service in the Distributed Transaction 
> Coordinator
> (MSDTC) service.
>
> Exploitation can at most lead to a denial of service and therefore 
> the
> risk factor is at medium.
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> *      Vulnerable Systems
>
> Microsoft Windows 2000
> Microsoft Windows XP
> Microsoft Windows Server 2003
>
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>
> *      Vulnerability Information
>
> The msdtcprx.dll shared library contains RPC procedures for use 
> with
> the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service utilized 
> in
> Microsoft Windows.
>
> By sending a large (greater than 4k) request to BuildContextW(), a
> size check can be bypassed and a bug in NdrAllocate() may be 
> reached.
>
> This vulnerability was reported to Microsoft on October 12, 2005
>
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> *      Resolution
>
> Microsoft has provided a patch for this issue.  Please see their 
> bulletin, KB913580, for more information on obtaining and 
> installing
> the patch.
>
>
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>
> *      Credits
>
> This vulnerability was discovered by Chen Xiaobo of McAfee Avert 
> Labs.
>
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