Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > July 16 to 22, 2001

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 2 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 2 products from 2 vendors including Microsoft, and ISC. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Incorrect Default Permissions", and "Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity".

  • Microsoft has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

2 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-07-21 CVE-2001-0497 ISC Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in ISC Bind

dnskeygen in BIND 8.2.4 and earlier, and dnssec-keygen in BIND 9.1.2 and earlier, set insecure permissions for a HMAC-MD5 shared secret key file used for DNS Transactional Signatures (TSIG), which allows attackers to obtain the keys and perform dynamic DNS updates.

7.8
2001-07-16 CVE-2001-1238 Microsoft Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

Task Manager in Windows 2000 does not allow local users to end processes with uppercase letters named (1) winlogon.exe, (2) csrss.exe, (3) smss.exe and (4) services.exe via the Process tab which could allow local users to install Trojan horses that cannot be stopped with the Task Manager.

7.8

0 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS