Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Could Lead to Denial of Service
Informations
Name KB904797 First vendor Publication 2005-07-16
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2005-08-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of a vulnerability. We have issued a security bulletin to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review the security bulletin.


Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/904797.mspx

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100092
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100092
Title: Windows XP,SP1 (64-bit) RDP DoS Vulnerability
Description: The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1218
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:180
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:180
Title: Windows 2000,SP4 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) DoS Vulnerability
Description: The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1218
Version: 7
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:346
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:346
Title: Windows Server 2003,SP1 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) DoS Vulnerability
Description: The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1218
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:376
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:376
Title: Windows XP,SP2 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) DoS Vulnerability
Description: The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1218
Version: 7
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:609
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:609
Title: Windows Server 2003 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) DoS Vulnerability
Description: The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1218
Version: 6
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:618
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:618
Title: Windows XP,SP1 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) DoS Vulnerability
Description: The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1218
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 5
Os 13
Os 6

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
18624 Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Crafted Packet Remote DoS

Windows contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a specially crafted RDP packet is sent by an attacker, which causes a memory fault within the rdpwd.sys driver file, and will result in loss of availability for the platform.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 remote desktop protocol attempted administrator connection request
RuleID : 4060 - Revision : 9 - Type : APP-DETECT
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows remote desktop oversized cookie attempt
RuleID : 21089 - Revision : 4 - Type : OS-WINDOWS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows remote desktop denial of service attempt
RuleID : 21088 - Revision : 4 - Type : OS-WINDOWS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2005-08-09 Name : It is possible to crash the remote desktop service.
File : smb_nt_ms05-041.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO