Nortel Media Communication Server 5100 up to NT denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Nortel Media Communication Server 5100 up to NT. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. 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:

The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) the frame number set to zero, which causes an invalid memory address to be used and leads to a kernel crash, or (2) the rate number set to zero, which leads to resource exhaustion and hang.

The bug was discovered 12/23/2004. The weakness was disclosed 12/20/2004 by Flashsky with VenusTech (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-1305 since 12/21/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16124 (MS05-002: Cursor and Icon Format Handling Code Execution (891711)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18768), Tenable (16124) and Exploit-DB (721). The entries 1087, 1088, 1086 and 24252 are pretty similar.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

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Nessus ID: 16124
Nessus Name: MS05-002: Cursor and Icon Format Handling Code Execution (891711)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nortel-canada.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Flashsky
Organization: VenusTech
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1305 (🔍)
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X-Force: 18768
Vulnerability Center: 6825 - [MS05-002] DoS in Microsoft Windows via Animated Cursor, High
SecurityFocus: 12094 - Microsoft Windows ANI File Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 13645 - Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 12624 - Microsoft Windows Kernel ANI File Parsing DoS

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 02/27/2015 23:38
Updated: 05/29/2019 10:52
Changes: 02/27/2015 23:38 (81), 05/29/2019 10:52 (6)
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