CVE-2005-1981 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1981?

CVE-2005-1981 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 10 Aug 2005. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 domain controllers allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted Kerberos message.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1981?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1981?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-1981 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-2005-1981 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1981 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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
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Also known as GHSA-88qw-9cpf-73vx.