The local and remote desktop login screens in Microsoft Windows XP before SP2 and 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) by repeatedly using the WinKey+U key combination, which causes multiple copies of Windows Utility Manager to be loaded more quickly than they can be closed when the copies detect that another instance is running.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Windows_2003_server | Microsoft | r2 (including) | r2 (including) |
Windows_xp | Microsoft | * | * |