CVE-2005-1792

Impact

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

Affected products

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196
• http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/13020
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196
• http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/13020
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801