The local and remote desktop login screens in Microsoft Windows XP before SP2 and 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) by repeatedly using the WinKey+"U" key combination, which causes multiple copies of Windows Utility Manager to be loaded more quickly than they can be closed when the copies detect that another instance is running.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-10-25T04:00:00

Updated: 2017-07-10T14:57:01

Reserved: 2005-10-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2004-2527

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-11T01:31:58.890


Link: CVE-2004-2527

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