CVE-2004-2365 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-2365?

CVE-2004-2365 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, published on 16 Aug 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by repeatedly creating and deleting directories using a non-standard tool such as smbmount.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-2365?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2004-2365?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-2365 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-2004-2365 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-2365 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

• CVE-2008-0015 Microsoft Windows Video ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1701 Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2013-5065 Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2011-1268 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1868 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2003 Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wq52-69c2-w636.