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CVE-2005-1792

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-06-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows Xp

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References