National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2526

Overview

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows XP SP3 does not properly process packets in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending crafted RDP packets triggering access to a deleted object, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA12-227A

Name: TA12-227A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-227A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS12-053

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS12-053