CVE-2005-3172

Published Oct 6, 2005

Last updated 16 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:fr:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "330B6798-5380-44AD-9B52-DF5955FA832C"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References