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CVE-2005-1184

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 32.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-04-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The TCP/IP stack in multiple operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet with the correct sequence number but the wrong Acknowledgement number, which generates a large number of "keep alive" packets. NOTE: some followups indicate that this issue could not be replicated.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: datacenter_64-bit-sp1, enterprise, enterprise-sp1, enterprise_64-bit, enterprise_64-bit-sp1, r2 (+6)
• Microsoft Windows 98Se: 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

References

• http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Apr/0358.html
• http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Apr/0383.html
• http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Apr/0385.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13215
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40502
• http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Apr/0358.html
• http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Apr/0383.html
• http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Apr/0385.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13215
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40502

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