CVE-2005-1792 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service in the Windows WMI service by rapidly creating security contexts, leading to memory exhaustion and system crashes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-1792?
CVE-2005-1792 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Xp, published on 1 Jun 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1792?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Windows Xp.
How do I fix CVE-2005-1792?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-1792 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-2005-1792 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1792 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Xp
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vgrc-2r4p-pv57.