CVE-2012-0164 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0164?

CVE-2012-0164 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft .Net Framework, published on 9 May 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 does not properly compare index values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via crafted requests to a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application, aka ".NET Framework Index Comparison Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0164?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft .Net Framework.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0164?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-0164 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-2012-0164 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0164 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m483-w5fx-c7h4.