<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Server DHCP service improperly discloses the contents of its memory.</p>
<p>To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted packet to an affected DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p>
<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers initializes memory.</p>
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| Description | <p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Server DHCP service improperly discloses the contents of its memory.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted packet to an affected DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers initializes memory.</p> | <p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Server DHCP service improperly discloses the contents of its memory.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted packet to an affected DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers initializes memory.</p> |
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T06:25:00.842Z
Reserved: 2019-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2020-1031
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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-09-11T17:15:17.997
Modified: 2026-02-23T18:23:04.930
Link: CVE-2020-1031
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