CVE-2008-1440 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-1440?

CVE-2008-1440 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, published on 12 Jun 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, does not properly validate the option length field in Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system hang) via a crafted PGM packet, aka the "PGM Invalid Length Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-1284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1440?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1440?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1440 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-2008-1440 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1440 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Server 2003

• CVE-2011-2005 Microsoft Ancillary Function Driver (afd.sys) Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2013-3863 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2013-3181 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2013-0077 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2012-0009 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.3

All Microsoft Windows Server 2003 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2r7g-mf5h-9gcw.