CVE-2005-1184 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1184?

CVE-2005-1184 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 19 Apr 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TCP/IP stack in multiple operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet with the correct sequence number but the wrong Acknowledgement number, which generates a large number of "keep alive" packets. NOTE: some followups indicate that this issue could not be replicated.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1184?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 98se, Microsoft Windows Nt, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1184?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-1184 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-2005-1184 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-1184 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-38jq-w6gg-wjm2.