CVE-2002-0224 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash or hang the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Service Coordinator by sending malformed input, affecting Windows 2000 systems.
- 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-2002-0224?
CVE-2002-0224 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services, published on 3 May 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Service Coordinator) for Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft IIS 5.0 and SQL Server 6.5 through SQL 2000 0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via malformed (random) input.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0224?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Services, Microsoft Sql Server, Microsoft Windows 2000.
How do I fix CVE-2002-0224?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0224 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-2002-0224 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0224 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-xrq7-8rcw-5wqv.