CVE-2000-0232 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service in Microsoft TCP/IP Printing Services by sending a malformed TCP/IP print request.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2000-0232?
CVE-2000-0232 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 2 Jun 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Microsoft TCP/IP Printing Services, aka Print Services for Unix, allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed TCP/IP print request.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0232?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Microsoft Terminal Server, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Nt.
How do I fix CVE-2000-0232?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0232 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2000-0232 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0232 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000
- CVE-2006-4465 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2007-2593 Security feature bypass in n/a
- CVE-1999-0909 Security feature bypass in n/a
- CVE-1999-0391 Auth bypass in n/a
- CVE-2000-0259 The default permissions for the Cryptography\Offload registry key used by the OffloadModExpo in Windows NT 4.0 allows local users to obtain
Sources
Also known as GHSA-58qq-6frr-hh6q.