CVE-2001-0543 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Memory leak in NNTP service in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed posts.

Memory leak in NNTP service in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed posts.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CWE-401

The following C function leaks a block of allocated memory if the call to read() does not return the expected number of bytes:


               
}

                     
return buf;
return NULL;

                           
return NULL;

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-20 04:00:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-04-02 12:52:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000

2000

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

References

3183

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

MS01-043

Patch, Vendor Advisory

win-nntp-dos(6977)

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:334

Third Party Advisory

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