Microsoft Windows Media Services 4.0/4.1 Unicast Service denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows Media Services 4.0/4.1 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Unicast Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Race condition in Microsoft Windows Media server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the Windows Media Unicast Service via a malformed request, aka the "Unicast Service Race Condition" vulnerability.

The weakness was published 11/14/2000 with Microsoft as MS00-064 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2000-0849. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch MS00-064 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (5193).

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Patch: MS00-064

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09/06/2000 🔍
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11/14/2000 +69 days 🔍
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06/30/2014 +3759 days 🔍
05/20/2019 +1785 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS00-064
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2000-0849 (🔍)
X-Force: 5193 - Microsoft Windows Media Services Unicast Service denial of service
Vulnerability Center: 3968 - [MS00-064] Microsoft Windows Media Unicast Service Race Condition, High
SecurityFocus: 1655 - Microsoft Windows Media Unicast Services DoS Vulnerability

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Created: 06/30/2014 13:14
Updated: 05/20/2019 14:29
Changes: 06/30/2014 13:14 (43), 05/20/2019 14:29 (22)
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