CVE-2002-0053 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2002-0053?

CVE-2002-0053 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 18 Feb 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in SNMP agent service in Windows 95/98/98SE, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a malformed management request. NOTE: this candidate may be split or merged with other candidates. This and other PROTOS-related candidates, especially CVE-2002-0012 and CVE-2002-0013, will be updated when more accurate information is available.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0053?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98se, Microsoft Windows Nt, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0053?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2002-0053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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