CVE-2003-1544 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2003-1544?

CVE-2003-1544 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 13 Feb 2008. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-1544?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2003-1544?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-1544 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-2003-1544 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-1544 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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-5wrj-fg88-pmg2.