CVE-2010-1734 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1734?

CVE-2010-1734 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 5 May 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SfnINSTRING function in win32k.sys in the kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a 0x18d value in the second argument (aka the Msg argument) of a PostMessage function call for the DDEMLEvent window.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1734?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2010-1734?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1734 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-2010-1734 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1734 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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-q94h-3hx2-w7q6.