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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:00 AM

MS08-020 : How predictable is the DNS transaction ID?

Today we released MS08-020 to address a weakness in the Transaction ID (TXID) generation algorithm in the DNS client resolver. The TXID is a 16-bit entity that is primarily used as a synchronization mechanism between DNS servers/clients; in fact, you
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:28 PM

MS07-065 - The case of the significant suffix

MS07-065 fixed a vulnerability in the Message Queueing service. On Windows 2000, a remote anonymous attacker could use this vulnerability to run code as local system on unpatched machines. Windows XP added defense-in-depth hardening to disallow remote
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