CVE-2003-0812 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0812?

CVE-2003-0812 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 18 Nov 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in a logging function for Windows Workstation Service (WKSSVC.DLL) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via RPC calls that cause long entries to be written to a debug log file ("NetSetup.LOG"), as demonstrated using the NetAddAlternateComputerName API.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0812?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0812?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0812 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-2003-0812 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2003-0812 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 4 Exploit-DB entries.

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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Also known as GHSA-9gqx-wxpv-w98p.