Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Control Manager denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Service Control Manager. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-1999-0980. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Service Control Manager. 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:

Windows NT Service Control Manager (SCM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed argument in a resource enumeration request.

The weakness was shared 05/16/2000 as MS99-055 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is available at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0980. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10204 (Microsoft Windows NT SCM Malformed Resource Enumeration Request DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows, running in the context r and relying on port 139.

Applying the patch MS99-055 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (3427), Exploit-DB (19577), Tenable (10204) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-749†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 10204
Nessus Name: Microsoft Windows NT SCM Malformed Resource Enumeration Request DoS
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Patch: MS99-055
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com
Product: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS99-055
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-1999-0980 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0980
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-15554
X-Force: 3427
Vulnerability Center: 749 - [MS99-055] Windows NT services.exe DOS, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 06/24/2014 16:36
Updated: 01/20/2025 09:57
Changes: 06/24/2014 16:36 (43), 05/08/2019 15:27 (24), 01/20/2025 09:57 (25)
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Cache ID: 216:26A:103

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