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CVE-2005-3172

N/A
Published: October 6, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWindows 2000

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MSKBPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824867
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MSKBPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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