Memory Consumption and RDP Outage Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

CVE-2015-0079 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and RDP outage) by establishing many RDP sessions that do not properly free allocated memory, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability."

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