PT-2005-2760 · Microsoft · Windows Management Instrumentation (Wmi) Service

Published 2005-06-01 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-1792

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 Management Instrumentation (WMI) service (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak in the WMI service allows attackers to cause a denial of service by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache, leading to memory consumption and crash.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1792

Affected Products

Windows Management Instrumentation (Wmi) Service

References · 5

• http://networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13801 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1792 · Security Note
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/13020 · Note