CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3177

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

Description

CHKDSK in Microsoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, when running in fix mode, does not properly handle security descriptors if the master file table contains a large number of files or if the descriptors do not satisfy certain NTFS conventions, which could cause ACLs for some files to be reverted to less secure defaults, or cause security descriptors to be removed.

Affected configurations

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

References