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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-10-06T04:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:50:51.894Z

Reserved: 2005-10-06T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2005-3172

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2005-10-06T10:02:00.000

Modified: 2008-09-05T20:53:39.217

Link: CVE-2005-3172

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