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CVE-2003-0813

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Nov 17, 2003 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5.1 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0813
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/367.html

A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or reboot) by causing two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes one thread to use memory after it has been freed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi), CVE-2003-0715, and CVE-2003-0528, and as demonstrated by certain exploits against those vulnerabilities.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Windows_2000Microsoft**
Windows_98Microsoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_ntMicrosoft4.0-sp6a (including)4.0-sp6a (including)
Windows_server_2003Microsoft**
Windows_xpMicrosoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_xpMicrosoft–sp1 (including)–sp1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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