Microsoft Windows XP - Redirector Privilege Escalation

Author: Nsfocus
type: local
platform: windows
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date_added: 2003-02-05 
date_updated: 2012-10-24 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2003-0004;OSVDB-13411 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6778/info

The Microsoft Windows XP Redirector does not properly handle certain parameters that are passed to it. If one of these parameters was unusually long, a buffer could be overrun, resulting in either Windows XP crashing or code execution with elevated privileges.

c:\> net use \\AAAA...AAA\A