Distributed Transaction Controller in Microsoft Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (MSDTC service exception and exit) via an "unexpected protocol command during the reconnection request," which is not properly handled by the Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP) functionality.

The remote version of Windows contains a version of MSDTC (Microsoft Data Transaction Coordinator) service that has several remote code execution, local privilege escalation, and denial of service vulnerabilities.

An attacker may exploit these flaws to obtain the complete control of the remote host.

The remote version of Windows contains a version of MSDTC and COM+ that is affected by several remote code execution, local privilege escalation and denial of service vulnerabilities.

An attacker may exploit these flaws to obtain the complete control of the remote host.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
20008	MS05-051: Vulnerabilities in MSDTC Could Allow Remote Code Execution (902400) (uncredentialed check)	Nessus	Windows	critical
20004	MS05-051: Vulnerabilities in MSDTC and COM+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (902400)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2005-1979

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical