Active Directory

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Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use primarily in Windows environments. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services for Windows based computers. Active Directory also allows administrators to assign policies, deploy software, and apply critical updates to an entire organization. Active Directory stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

On July 16, 2007, Radware announced the availability of a protection against the critical Microsoft Active Directory vulnerability disclosed in Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday release.

The new signature protects against a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Active Directory vulnerability that can be remotely exploited by hackers to gain a remote code execution on both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 platforms. Organizations that rely upon Microsoft Active Directory might suffer from a corruption, privileges modification and denial-of-service as a result of this attack.