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CVE-2006-2371

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the Remote Access Connection Manager service (RASMAN) service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 and earlier allows remote unauthenticated or authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain crafted "RPC related requests," that lead to registry corruption and stack corruption, aka the "RASMAN Registry Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: datacenter_edition, datacenter_edition-sp1, datacenter_edition_64-bit, datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1, enterprise_64-bit, enterprise_edition-sp1 (+9)
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/20630
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1096
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016285
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/814644
• http://www.osvdb.org/26436
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436977/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18358
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2323
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-025
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26814
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1674

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