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Saint MS02-039 (Slammer)
Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.
Feast day July 24
Technical record
- Disclosed on
- July 24 2002
- CVE
- CVE-2002-0649
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.
Sources: cve.org · learn.microsoft.com · caida.org
Elected Pope Slammer I in 2002
Related scourges: The Great Plague of Slammer
Weapon of the demons: The Demon Slammer, Lightning in a Single Packet