CVE-2005-1792

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

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

Type

Microsoft Windows XP

First reported 19 years ago

2005-06-01 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:50:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Gold

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 Home Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Home Edition

References

890196

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

13020

13801

Patch

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