Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Moves To Fix Bug

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has scrambled to address a widespread
ASP.NET bug. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Moves To Fix Bug Microsoft
Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) warned of an unpatched vulnerability affecting all
versions of ASP.NET, a web application framework that allows developers to build
enterprise-grade web applications. The bug enables attackers to use limited
means to launch a devastating denial-of-service (DoS) attack against web
servers. The software giant is anticipating exploit code to quickly be
developed, and security experts said an emergency fix could come as early as
this week. Suha Can and Jonathan Ness, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
engineers, said that, The vulnerability could allow an anonymous attacker to
efficiently consume all CPU resources on a web server, or even a cluster of web
servers [rendering ASP.NET pages. An attacker could potentially repeatedly issue
such requests, causing performance to degrade significantly enough to cause a
denial-of-service condition for even multi-core servers or clusters of servers.
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