CVE-2008-4114 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Windows systems via malformed SMB packets, requiring immediate patching of the Server service.
- 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-2008-4114?
CVE-2008-4114 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 16 Sep 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
srv.sys in the Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an SMB WRITE_ANDX packet with an offset that is inconsistent with the packet size, related to "insufficiently validating the buffer size," as demonstrated by a request to the \PIPE\lsarpc named pipe, aka "SMB Validation Denial of Service Vulnerability."
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4114?
It affects 5 products.
Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Xp.
How do I fix CVE-2008-4114?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4114 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-2008-4114 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-4114 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000
Sources
Also known as GHSA-55g3-v56r-3g2g.