eliminates a security vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 which could cause it to crash.
If a specially-malformed TDS packet is sent to a SQL server, it can cause the SQL service to crash. This vulnerability would not allow any inappropriate access to the data on the server, nor would it enable a malicious user to usurp any administrative control on the machine.
An affected machine could be put back into service by restarting the SQL service. This vulnerability could be remotely exploited only if port 1433 were open at the firewall.
Microsoft SQL Server and quot;Malformed TDS Packet Header and quot; Vulnerability Patch runs on
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 286 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Databases.
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