CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2119

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:P/A:N

Description

The MIDL_user_allocate function in the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) proxy (MSDTCPRX.DLL) allocates a 4K page of memory regardless of the required size, which allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory locations using an incorrect size value that is provided to the NdrAllocate function, which writes management data to memory outside of the allocated buffer.

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