VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-3172

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.08%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-10-06
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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