CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-1792
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-06-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness
References
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/13020 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801 Patch
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/13020 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801 Patch