CVE-2006-5988 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5988?

CVE-2006-5988 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 20 Nov 2006. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 running Active Directory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by a certain VulnDisco Pack module. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information. As of 20061116, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, since the VulnDisco Pack author is a reliable researcher, the disclosure is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5988?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5988?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5988 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-2006-5988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5988 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-xx6v-q9cc-vc9m.