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CVE-2006-1184

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 30.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-05-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) for Windows NT 4.0, 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a BuildContextW request with a large (1) UuidString or (2) GuidIn of a certain length, which causes an out-of-range memory access, aka the MSDTC Denial of Service Vulnerability. NOTE: this is a variant of CVE-2005-2119.

Affected products

• Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: enterprise, enterprise_64-bit, r2, standard, web
• 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://secunia.com/advisories/20000
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/864
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016047
• http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20060509b.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/25336
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433425/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17905
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1742
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-018
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25558
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1295
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1779

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