Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 13, 2005· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2005-2120
CVE-2005-2120
Description
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.
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Affected products
5cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:fr:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:fr:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <= SP4
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp1:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp1:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp2:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <= SP2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
15- secunia.com/advisories/17166nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- securitytracker.com/idnvdPatch
- www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20051011c.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15065nvdExploitPatch
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/214572nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- secunia.com/advisories/17172nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/17223nvd
- securityreason.com/securityalert/71nvd
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdfnvd
- www.osvdb.org/18830nvd
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-047nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1244nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1328nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1519nvd
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