CVE-2005-0852 Microsoft Windows XP SP1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an empty datagram to a raw IP over IP socket (IP protocol 4), as originally demonstrated using code in Pytho...

LowCVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.70% PoC

Published: 2005-03-24 07:00
Updated: 2026-06-17 01:11
Exploit status: Proof-of-concept only

Description

Microsoft Windows XP SP1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an empty datagram to a raw IP over IP socket (IP protocol 4), as originally demonstrated using code in Python 2.3.

Affected products

No affected product data has been published yet.

References

20050322 Possible windows+python bug mailing-list
12870 exploit vdb-entry

CVSS v2.0

2.1 Low

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: Local
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: None
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: Partial

Weakness & likelihood

EPSS (exploitation probability, 30 days): 0.70% (percentile 53.7)
CWE: Not classified

Public exploit references

Metadata only. CVERadar never hosts or runs exploit code.

Microsoft Windows XP - Local Denial of Service PoC · Exploit Database (OffSec) · 2005-03-22