CVE-2005-0551

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Stack-based buffer overflow in WINSRV.DLL in the Client Server Runtime System (CSRSS) process of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1 and SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to gain privileges via a specially-designed application that provides console window information with a long FaceName value.

Stack-based buffer overflow in WINSRV.DLL in the Client Server Runtime System (CSRSS) process of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1 and SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to gain privileges via a specially-designed application that provides console window information with a long FaceName value.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:36:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 tablet_pc

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 tablet_pc

References

20050412 Microsoft Windows CSRSS.EXE Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Patch, Vendor Advisory

MS05-018

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1822

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:266

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3544

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:777

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