CVE-2005-3172

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductMicrosoft Windows
PublishedOct 6, 2005
First seenOct 6, 2005

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
microsoft windows_2000No range specified—

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