CVE-2008-4835

CRITICAL

Microsoft Windows - Remote Code Execution via Malformed SMB NT Trans2 Request

Title source: llm

Description

SMB in the Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed values of unspecified "fields inside the SMB packets" in an NT Trans2 request, related to "insufficiently validating the buffer size," aka "SMB Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-002/

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ms

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-001

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0116

US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-013A.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33122

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500013/100/0/threaded

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021560

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5248

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.4492

EPSS Percentile 98.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-94

Status published

Products (5)

microsoft/windows_2000

microsoft/windows_server_2003 (4 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_server_2008 (3 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_vista (3 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_xp (4 CPE variants)

Published Jan 14, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026