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Windows RPC Race Condition Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9978
Release Date: 2003-10-15
Last Update: 2006-05-15
Popularity: 19,557 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
ISS X-Force has reported a vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition when handling incoming RPC requests. This can be exploited by sending many specially crafted RPC request, which causes two threads to handle the same RPC request.

Successful exploitation leads to memory corruption, which causes the RPC service to crash and may also force the vulnerable system to reboot.

An exploit has been available on the Internet since last week. Secunia briefly described this in:
SA9692

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