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CVE-2002-1712

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 25.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending a flood of empty TCP/IP packets with the ACK and FIN bits set to the NetBIOS port (TCP/139), as demonstrated by stream3.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0, 4.0-sp1, 4.0-sp2, 4.0-sp3, 4.0-sp4, 4.0-sp5 (+2)

References

• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/252616
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3BEN-US%3Bq280446
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3967
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8037
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/252616
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3BEN-US%3Bq280446
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3967
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8037

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