CVE-2006-2371 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2371?

CVE-2006-2371 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 13 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the Remote Access Connection Manager service (RASMAN) service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 and earlier allows remote unauthenticated or authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain crafted "RPC related requests," that lead to registry corruption and stack corruption, aka the "RASMAN Registry Corruption Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2371?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2371?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-2371 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2006-2371 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2371 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-gpg5-4482-gv27.