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Sid
15903

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Windows 2000.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
The RPC DCOM interface in Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and local attackers to use the DoS to hijack the epmapper pipe to gain privileges, via certain messages to the __RemoteGetClassObject interface that cause a NULL pointer to be passed to the PerformScmStage function.

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Affected Systems:
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 
Microsoft Windows 2000 

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2003-0605:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2003-0605
  
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