Overview
The Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to disrupt the telnet service on affected servers.
Description
The Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service contains a resource starvation vulnerability that prevents the server from releasing handles when telnet sessions are terminated in a specific manner. If a sufficiently large number of session requests are established and then terminated in this manner, it is possible to consume all available handle resources, resulting in a denial-of-service attack against all services offered by the victim server. |
Impact
This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disrupt or crash affected Windows 2000 servers, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. |
Solution
Apply a patch from your vendor Microsoft has released a patch for this vulnerability; for further information, please consult the systems affected section below. |
Disable telnet service
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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References
Acknowledgements
This document was written by Jeffrey P. Lanza and is based on information provided by Microsoft.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2001-0346 |
| Severity Metric: | 11.81 |
| Date Public: | 2001-06-07 |
| Date First Published: | 2001-09-18 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2001-09-18 23:27 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 14 |