National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1968

Overview

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 does not properly process packets in memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) by sending crafted RDP packets triggering access to an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, as exploited in the wild in 2011, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA11-221A

Name: TA11-221A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-221A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS11-065

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-065.mspx

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12806

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12806

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12806

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12806