CVE-2003-1544 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

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.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft Subscribe	Windows 2000 Subscribe

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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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

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

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

Link: CVE-2003-1544

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2003-1544

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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