National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0813
Orirignal release date: 2003-11-17
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or reboot) by causing two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes one thread to use memory after it has been freed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi), CVE-2003-0715, and CVE-2003-0528, and as demonstrated by certain exploits against those vulnerabilities.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 8 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: race
    Impact Type: avail,sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Windows XP (Microsoft)
    Windows 2000 (Microsoft)
    Windows Server 2003 (Microsoft)
    Windows NT (Microsoft)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0813