CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-3172
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The WideCharToMultiByte function in Microsoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4 does not properly convert strings with Japanese composite characters in the last character, which could prevent the string from being null terminated and lead to data corruption or enable buffer overflow attacks.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
References
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824867 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824867 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345 Patch, Vendor Advisory