CVE-2004-0202: Microsoft DirectX

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 26.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IDirectPlay4 Application Programming Interface (API) of Microsoft DirectPlay 7.0a thru 9.0b, as used in Windows Server 2003 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

• Microsoft DirectX: version 7.0 only; version 7.0a only; version 7.1 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.0a only; version 8.1 only; …
• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version web only
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2004-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.