Windows 2000 vulnerabilities
6 known vulnerabilities in Windows 2000 from Microsoft. 6 are rated high or critical, and 6 have been exploited in real attacks. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 7.8 High severity
Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited
The kernel in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 through Windows 7, including Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2, when access to 16-bit applications is enabled on a 32
- 7.8 High severity
Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited
The kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 SP2 does not properly validate changes to unspecified kernel objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, ak
- 9.3 High severity
Microsoft DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Exploited
Unspecified vulnerability in the QuickTime Movie Parser Filter in quartz.dll in DirectShow in Microsoft DirectX 7.0 through 9.0c on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, and Windows Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a cr
- 10.0 High severity
Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited
The Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, Server 2008, and 7 Pre-Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request that triggers the overflow during path canoni
- 7.8 High severity
Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited
The POSIX component of Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via certain parameters, possibly by modifying message length values and causing a buffer overflow.
- 7.8 High severity
Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited
smss.exe debugging subsystem in Windows NT and Windows 2000 does not properly authenticate programs that connect to other programs, which allows local users to gain administrator or SYSTEM privileges by duplicating a handle to a privileged process, as demonstr