CVE-2003-1544 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.

Published: 2008-02-13

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: 30.2% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::sp3:adv_srv:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::sp3:srv:::::

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Remediation

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.30177.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/7959
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3654
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815225/en-us
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308059
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308164
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6672
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005986
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11141
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11816

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows 2000

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-02-13T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.439Z

Reserved: 2008-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-1544

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2003-1544

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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