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CVE-2005-2120

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of "\" (backslash) characters in a registry key name, which triggers the overflow in a wsprintfW function call.

Published

2005-10-13T10:02:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	microsoft	windows_2000	*	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows_xp	*	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows_xp	*	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17166 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17172 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223 ([email protected])
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/71 ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015042 Patch ([email protected])
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf ([email protected])
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20051011c.html Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/214572 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/18830 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15065 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource ([email protected])
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-047 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1244 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1328 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1519 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17166 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17172 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/71 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015042 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20051011c.html Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/214572 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/18830 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15065 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-047 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1244 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1328 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1519 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)