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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2580 Date: 2007-10-25
Title: Animated Cursor Denial of Service (Server 2003)
Description: The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) the frame number set to zero, which causes an invalid memory address to be used and leads to a kernel crash, or (2) the rate number set to zero, which leads to resource exhaustion and hang.
Version: 2 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2004-1305
Family: windows
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Product(s): Windows Animated Cursor
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