CVE-2005-0688 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0688?

CVE-2005-0688 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, published on 8 Mar 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2, with Windows Firewall turned off, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet with the SYN flag set and the same destination and source address and port, aka a reoccurrence of the "Land" vulnerability (CVE-1999-0016).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0688?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0688?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-0688 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-2005-0688 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-0688 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

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• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-4r46-5w3g-fqfc.