Vulnerability in Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
CVE-2006-1184
Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) for Windows NT 4.0, 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a BuildContextW request with a large (1) UuidString or (2) GuidIn of a certain length, which causes an out-of-range memory access, aka the MSDTC Denial of Service Vulnerability. NOTE: this is a variant of CVE-2005-2119.
EPSS: 0.306 (98.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Distributed_transaction_coordinator
- Microsoft Windows_2000
- Microsoft Windows_2003_server — versions enterprise, enterprise_64-bit, r2
- Microsoft Windows_nt — versions 4.0
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2006-1184?
- CVE-2006-1184 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator. Published 2006-05-10.
- Is CVE-2006-1184 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.