CVE-2008-4835 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4835?

CVE-2008-4835 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 14 Jan 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SMB 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 execute arbitrary code via malformed values of unspecified "fields inside the SMB packets" in an NT Trans2 request, related to "insufficiently validating the buffer size," aka "SMB Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4835?

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-2008-4835?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4835 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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Is CVE-2008-4835 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4835 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-q664-wc5h-3vj4.