CVE-2004-1080 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1080?

CVE-2004-1080 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 1 Dec 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The WINS service (wins.exe) on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary memory locations and possibly execute arbitrary code via a modified memory pointer in a WINS replication packet to TCP port 42, aka the "Association Context Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1080?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Nt.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1080?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1080 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-2004-1080 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1080 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 2 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-438w-xvxp-m9c6.