CVE-2001-0659

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Buffer overflow in IrDA driver providing infrared data exchange on Windows 2000 allows attackers who are physically close to the machine to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a malformed IrDA packet.

Buffer overflow in IrDA driver providing infrared data exchange on Windows 2000 allows attackers who are physically close to the machine to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a malformed IrDA packet.

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).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-20 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

References

20010821 IrDA semiremote vulnerability

3215

MS01-046

win2k-irda-dos(7008)

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