CVE-2004-1748 Denial of service in n/a

Low 2.1 Published Updated

Local attackers can crash NtRegmon by providing invalid pointers to hook functions, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2004-1748?

CVE-2004-1748 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Feb 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NtRegmon before 6.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash), while NtRegmon is running, via invalid pointers to hook functions such as ZwSetQueryValue.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1748?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sysinternals Regmon.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1748?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1748 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-2004-1748 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1748 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4w5x-6pmj-4m2q.

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