CVE-2004-1305 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1305?

CVE-2004-1305 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 6 Jan 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) the frame number set to zero, which causes an invalid memory address to be used and leads to a kernel crash, or (2) the rate number set to zero, which leads to resource exhaustion and hang.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1305?

It affects 19 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98se, Microsoft Windows Me, Microsoft Windows Nt and 13 more.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1305?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1305 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-2004-1305 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1305 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
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