CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2120

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2005-10-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-10-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of "\" (backslash) characters in a registry key name, which triggers the overflow in a wsprintfW function call.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows xp

References