CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2118

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2005-10-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2005-10-21
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Windows Shell for Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted shortcut (.lnk) file with long font properties that lead to a buffer overflow when the user views the file's properties using Windows Explorer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2122.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2003 server r2 • microsoft windows xp

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17168 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17172 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223 Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015040 securitytracker.com
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf support.avaya.com
http://www.argeniss.com/research/MSBugPaper.pdf Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15070 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-049 docs.microsoft.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1116 oval.cisecurity.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1192 oval.cisecurity.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/17168 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17172 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223 Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015040 securitytracker.com
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf support.avaya.com
http://www.argeniss.com/research/MSBugPaper.pdf Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15070 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-049 docs.microsoft.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1116 oval.cisecurity.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1192 oval.cisecurity.org