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CVE-2005-1792

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

Published

2005-06-01T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	microsoft	windows_xp	*	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows_xp	*	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows_xp	*	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows_xp	*	Yes

References

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/13020 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801 Patch ([email protected])
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/13020 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)