Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Windows Message Queuing Message Header Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Message Queuing service of Microsoft Windows.


The vulnerability could potentially lead to unauthenticated remote code execution in the Message Queuing service due to the lack of bound check when reading user-controlled section size.


Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

MS.Windows.MSMQ.CVE-2023-21554.Remote.Code.Execution
Released Apr 06, 2023

Users should apply the solution provided by Microsoft.


Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Microsoft on February 14, 2023

Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability on February 17, 2023

Microsoft released a patch for the vulnerability on April 11, 2023

References

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Wayne Low of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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