PT-2005-2200 · Microsoft · Windows 2000+4
Eduardo Tongson
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Published
2005-04-19
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Updated
2019-04-30
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CVE-2005-1184
CVSS v2.0
5.0
Medium
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Multiple operating systems (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue affects the TCP/IP stack, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming CPU resources. This is achieved by sending a TCP packet with the correct sequence number but the wrong Acknowledgement number, resulting in the generation of a large number of "keep alive" packets.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows 98Se
Windows Nt
Windows Xp