CVE-2014-1811 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1811?

CVE-2014-1811 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 7, published on 11 Jun 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TCP implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (non-paged pool memory consumption and system hang) via malformed data in the Options field of a TCP header, aka "TCP Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1811?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Rt, Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1811?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1811 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-2014-1811 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1811 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 7

• CVE-2015-1635 Microsoft HTTP.sys Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2360 Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-6324 Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-6332 Microsoft Windows Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) Automation Array Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-4148 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8

All Microsoft Windows 7 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-669f-cvch-p8w2.