National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4114
Original release date:09/16/2008
Last revised:08/04/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
srv.sys in the Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an SMB WRITE_ANDX packet with an offset that is inconsistent with the packet size, related to "insufficiently validating the buffer size," as demonstrated by a request to the \PIPE\lsarpc named pipe, aka "SMB Validation Denial of Service Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-013A
Name: TA09-013A
External Source: MS
Name: MS09-001
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: win-writeandx-dos(45146)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2583
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.vallejo.cc/proyectos/vista_SMB_write_DoS.htm
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020887
External Source: BID
Name: 31179
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080914 Microsoft Windows WRITE_ANDX SMB command handling Kernel DoS
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=1
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 6463
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31883
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6044
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5262
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6044
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5262
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)