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CVE-2005-3172

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

References

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824867
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824867
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345

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