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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS13-095 Vulnerability in Digital Signatures Could Allow Denial of Service (2868626) Windows XP Important 13-11-2013

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
The vulnerability could allow denial of service when an affected web service processes a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

Detailed Information on the risk:

A denial of service vulnerability exists in implementations of X.509 certificate parsing that could cause an affected web service to stop responding. The vulnerability is caused when the X.509 certificate validation operation fails to handle a specially crafted X.509 certificate.


Further information on this exploit is available at : MS13-095

Affected Software

Windows XP
Windows XP Service Pack 3 
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 
Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems 
Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 
Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2 
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2 
Windows 7
Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1 
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1 
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
Windows 8 for 32-bit Systems 
Windows 8 for x64-based Systems 
Windows 8.1 for 32-bit Systems 
Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems 
Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 
Windows Server 2012 R2 
Windows RT and Windows RT 8.1
Windows RT[1] 
Windows RT 8.1[1] 
Server Core installation option
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation) 
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation) 
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation) 
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)