PT-2001-2041 · Microsoft · Windows 98Se+4

Published 2001-12-20 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2001-0877

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows versions 98, 98SE, ME, and XP

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved through a spoofed SSDP advertisement that causes the client to connect to a service on another machine generating a large amount of traffic, or via a spoofed SSDP announcement to broadcast or multicast addresses, potentially causing all clients to send traffic to a single target system.

Recommendations For Windows 98, 98SE, ME, and XP, consider disabling the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service to prevent exploitation until a fix is available. Restrict access to SSDP announcements and advertisements to minimize the risk of denial of service attacks.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-0877

Affected Products

Universal Plug/Play

Windows 98

Windows 98Se

Windows Me

Windows Xp

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0877 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-059 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/249238 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-37.html · Patch
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100887440810532&w=2 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=100887271006313&w=2 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/3724 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7722 · Note
• http://ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-030.shtml · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/411059 · Note