Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

CVE-2005-3172

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.

EPSS: 0.051 (91.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_MSKB, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_MSKB, Vendor Advisory)