CVE-2006-1184

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
37.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: May 10, 2006 (7309 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) for Windows NT 4.0, 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a BuildContextW request with a large (1) UuidString or (2) GuidIn of a certain length, which causes an out-of-range memory access, aka the MSDTC Denial of Service Vulnerability. NOTE: this is a variant of CVE-2005-2119.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft distributed transaction coordinatormicrosoft windows 2000microsoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows ntmicrosoft windows xp

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.eeye.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org