Denial of Service vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Microsoft Windows - CVE-2015-0079ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:23769 | Date: (C)2015-03-11 (M)2021-06-02 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
The host is installed with Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 and is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly free objects in memory. An unauthenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to exhaust the system memory by creating multiple RDP sessions. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the target system to stop responding.
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows 8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Microsoft Windows 7 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |