Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003
CVE-2008-1440
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, does not properly validate the option length field in Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system hang) via a crafted PGM packet, aka the "PGM Invalid Length Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.226 (97.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.226 · newest: 0.226 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-036 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5473 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1783 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30587 (Permissions Required, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29508 (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)