Department of Homeland Security IAIP Directorate
Can anyone explain the email that was sent to me below and will the hotfix 2 for Whatsup Gold 8.03 fix the vulnerability issue. Please advise and thanks, -Maria Hejna Buffalostate College Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report for 20 September 2004 Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector 23. September 16, iDEFENSE â Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold remote denial of service vulnerability. Remote exploitation of a denial of service vulnerability in Ipswitch Inc.'s WhatsUp Gold version versions 8.03 and the latest version 8.03 Hotfix 1 allows attackers to cause the application to crash. Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the WhatsUp Gold application. A patch is available at: http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/WhatsUp/patchâupgrades.html Source: http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/
