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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T01:29:13.917Z
Reserved: 2005-10-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2004-2527

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Status : Modified
Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:53:34.870
Link: CVE-2004-2527

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