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Team SHATTER Security Alert

RPC Invalid Arguments DoS

July 27,2001

There has been a recent Denial of Service discovery in the RPC services that Microsoft SQL Server uses. We have not seen any attacks in the wild as of yet, but this hole could be used to bring down your database.

You are not vulnerable to the attack if you have Microsoft SQL Server 7 SP3 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP1. You can also download and install a patch for systems not yet upgraded to these service packs at:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/sql70/Hotfix/Q298012/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/Q298012_SQL70SP2_x86_en.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/SQLSVR2000/Hotfix/Q298012/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/Q298012_SQL2000_x86_en.exe