CVE-2002-0597 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause CPU and memory exhaustion in the Windows 2000 LANMAN service by sending malformed data to port 445.

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-2002-0597?

CVE-2002-0597 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 2 Apr 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

LANMAN service on Microsoft Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU/memory exhaustion) via a stream of malformed data to microsoft-ds port 445.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0597?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0597?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0597 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-2002-0597 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-0597 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-mxvx-2vp3-49f8.

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