CVE-2003-1544

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/7959
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3654
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815225/en-us
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308059
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308164
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6672
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005986
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11141
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11816
http://secunia.com/advisories/7959
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3654
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815225/en-us

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