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CVE-2002-1561

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2003-04-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The RPC component in Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disabled RPC service) via a malformed packet to the RPC Endpoint Mapper at TCP port 135, which triggers a null pointer dereference.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal ServicesMicrosoft Windows XpMicrosoft Windows Nt

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References