CVE-2003-1544: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 17.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.