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CVE-2004-1305

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 58.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) the frame number set to zero, which causes an invalid memory address to be used and leads to a kernel crash, or (2) the rate number set to zero, which leads to resource exhaustion and hang.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: enterprise, enterprise_64-bit, r2, standard, web
• Microsoft Windows 98: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98Se: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Me: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0, 4.0-sp1, 4.0-sp2, 4.0-sp3, 4.0-sp4, 4.0-sp5 (+2)
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
• Nortel Ip Softphone 2050: all versions
• Nortel Media Communication Server 5100: 3.0
• Nortel Media Communication Server 5200: 3.0
• Nortel Media Processing Server: all versions
• Nortel Periphonics: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Agent: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Call Center Server: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Express Call Center: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Network Control Center: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Tapi Service Provider: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Web Centre Portal: all versions
• Nortel Symposium Web Client: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110382854111833&w=2
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/177584
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697136
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-012A.html
• http://www.xfocus.net/flashsky/icoExp/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-002
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18667
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1304
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2580
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3216
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3957
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A712

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