Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 30, 2001· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2001-0540

Description

Memory leak in Terminal servers in Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests to port 3389.

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Affected products

Microsoft/Terminal Server
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:terminal_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/Windows 2000llm-fuzzy
Range: < SP2 (estimated)
Microsoft/Windows Ntllm-fuzzy
Range: < 4.0 SP6 (estimated)

Patches

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/3099nvd
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-040nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6912nvd

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