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

VectorAV: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

CVE-2005-1184

Affected Products

Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows 98Se
Windows Nt
Windows Xp