Overview
Microsoft RPCSS Service contains a memory management vulnerability that may permit a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service situation.
Description
The Microsoft RPCSS Service is responsible for managing Remote Procedure Call (RPC) messages and is enabled by default on many versions of Microsoft Windows. When the service receives a request from the DCOM/RPC interface to allocate memory, the size of the memory to be allocated is user-specified. A failure to check the size of the requested allocation and to reclaim discarded memory may lead to a resource exhaustion and cause a denial of service condition. The following systems are affected:
For more infomation please see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-012 and eEye Digital Security Advisory [AD20040413A]. |
Impact
A remote attacker can consume all available memory causing a denial-of-service condition. |
Solution
Apply a patch from the vendor |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Microsoft and eEye Digital Security for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2004-0116 |
| Severity Metric: | 3.80 |
| Date Public: | 2004-04-13 |
| Date First Published: | 2004-04-14 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2004-04-14 14:52 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 4 |