National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-1561
Original release date:04/02/2003
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The RPC component in Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disabled RPC service) via a malformed packet to the RPC Endpoint Mapper at TCP port 135, which triggers a null pointer dereference.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#261537
Name: VU#261537
External Source: BID
Name: 6005
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20021018 [Immunity, Inc.]Vulnerability: RPC Service DoS (port 135/tcp) onWindows 2000 SP3
Type: Advisory
External Source: MS
Name: MS03-010
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:59
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:59
Type: Tool Signature
