Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

CVE-2005-2119

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.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.355 (98.4th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2005-2119: held from 0.355 to 0.355.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.355 · newest: 0.355 · change: 0.000

Affected products

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