Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service denial of service

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows 2000 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Telnet Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Telnet Service for Windows 2000 Professional does not properly terminate incomplete connection attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the server and not providing any input.

The issue has been introduced in 02/17/2000. The weakness was disclosed 01/09/2001 by Alexander as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2000-1111. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 327 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (5598).

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

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

02/17/2000 🔍
11/30/2000 +287 days 🔍
11/30/2000 +0 days 🔍
01/09/2001 +40 days 🔍
01/09/2001 +0 days 🔍
06/21/2004 +1259 days 🔍
07/02/2014 +3663 days 🔍
05/22/2019 +1785 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com
Product: microsoft.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Alexander
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2000-1111 (🔍)
X-Force: 5598 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet daemon could allow a denial of service
Vulnerability Center: 4595 - DoS in Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Server, Medium
SecurityFocus: 2018 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Session Timeout DoS Vulnerability

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Created: 07/02/2014 12:24
Updated: 05/22/2019 14:43
Changes: 07/02/2014 12:24 (63), 05/22/2019 14:43 (1)
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Cache ID: 18:4A3:103

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