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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-0649 in the critical feed json

Multiple buffer overflows in the Resolution Service for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Desktop Engine 2000 (MSDE) allow remote att…

published 2002-07-26 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0643

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
84.8%
EPSS 84.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in the Resolution Service for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Desktop Engine 2000 (MSDE) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via UDP packets to port 1434 in which (1) a 0x04 byte that causes the SQL Monitor thread to generate a long registry key name, or (2) a 0x08 byte with a long string causes heap corruption, as exploited by the Slammer/Sapphire worm.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/mssql/ms02_039_slammer)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

84.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.