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Windows Registry Key Locking Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory:

SA14061

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Release Date:

2005-01-31

Popularity:

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Critical:

Not critical

Impact:

DoS

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Unpatched

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Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
Vladimir Kraljevic has reported a security issue in Windows, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The problem is that only a certain number of handles can be opened on a registry key. This can be exploited to prevent other users from logging on both locally and remotely via terminal services by opening a large amount of handles on the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" registry key and not closing them again.

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