# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 May 2002
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xrq7-8rcw-5wqv

## 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: 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.

## Is CVE-2002-0224 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0224 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Services

- [CVE-2017-7269](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7269/): Microsoft Windows Server Buffer Overflow (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2010-3972](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3972/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-4301](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4301/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-2815](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-2815/): The "hit-highlighting" functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server 5.0 only uses Windows NT ACL (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2003-0224](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0224/): Buffer overflow in ssinc.dll for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a web pa (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2002-0224 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0224 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Microsoft Internet Information Services. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-0224/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-0224/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0224
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0224
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2002-0224

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.