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CVE-2007-1748 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the RPC interface in the Domain Name System (DNS) Server Service in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP 4, Serv…

published 2007-04-13 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-1742

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
77.7%
EPSS 77.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
7
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the RPC interface in the Domain Name System (DNS) Server Service in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP 4, Server 2003 SP 1, and Server 2003 SP 2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long zone name containing character constants represented by escape sequences.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms07_029_msdns_zonename)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

77.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms07_029_msdns_zonename MS07-029 Microsoft DNS RPC Service extractQuotedChar() Overflow (TCP) metasploit exploit, great rank, 2007-04-12
  • Metasploit exploit/windows/smb/ms07_029_msdns_zonename MS07-029 Microsoft DNS RPC Service extractQuotedChar() Overflow (SMB) metasploit exploit, manual rank, 2007-04-12
  • EDB-16748 Microsoft DNS RPC Service - 'extractQuotedChar()' TCP Overflow (MS07-029) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-07-25
  • EDB-16366 Microsoft DNS RPC Service - 'extractQuotedChar()' Remote Overflow 'SMB' (MS07-029) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-09-28
  • EDB-3746 Microsoft Windows - DNS RPC Remote Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 2007-04-18
  • EDB-3740 Microsoft Windows - DNS DnssrvQuery Remote Stack Overflow remote, 2007-04-15
  • EDB-3737 Microsoft Windows Server 2000 SP4 - DNS RPC Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2007-04-15

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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