Buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows 2000
CVE-2009-0235
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Word 97 text converter in WordPad in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, related to use of inconsistent integer data sizes for an unspecified length field, aka "WordPad Word 97 Text Converter Stack Overflow Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.336 (98.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_2000
- Microsoft Windows_2003_server
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_IDEFENSE, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)