CVE-2005-3172 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2005-3172?

CVE-2005-3172 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 6 Oct 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3172?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2005-3172?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-3172 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2005-3172 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3172 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gp5h-cmjc-5gj4.