CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1979

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-10-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-10-12
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

Distributed Transaction Controller in Microsoft Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (MSDTC service exception and exit) via an "unexpected protocol command during the reconnection request," which is not properly handled by the Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP) functionality.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2003 server 64-bit • microsoft windows 2003 server itanium • microsoft windows 2003 server r2 • microsoft windows 2003 server sp1 • microsoft windows xp

References