CVE-2003-0227 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0227?

CVE-2003-0227 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 30 May 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The logging capability for unicast and multicast transmissions in the ISAPI extension for Microsoft Windows Media Services in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and 2000, nsiislog.dll, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in Internet Information Server (IIS) and execute arbitrary code via a certain network request.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0227?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Nt.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0227?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0227 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-2003-0227 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2003-0227 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6gg7-3h6w-v2fw.