Summary
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the implementation of the IDirectPlay4 application programming interface (API) of Microsoft DirectPlay because of a lack of robust packet validation.
If a user is running a networked DirectPlay application, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DirectPlay application to fail. The user would have to restart the application to resume functionality.
Solution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-016.mspx
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0202 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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