CVE-2005-1792

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/13020
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801Patch
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/13020
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801Patch

Timeline

Published: Jun 1, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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