CVE-2003-1544

medium

Description

Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11816

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11141

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005986

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6672

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308164

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308059

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815225/en-us

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3654

http://secunia.com/advisories/7959

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.1727