CVE-2007-5145

Microsoft Windows XP - Buffer Overflow via Extended File Attributes

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in system DLL files in Microsoft Windows XP, as used by Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) 6.00.2900.2180, Don Ho Notepad++, unspecified Adobe Macromedia applications, and other programs, allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via long strings in the (1) author, (2) title, (3) subject, and (4) comment Properties fields of a file, possibly involving improper handling of extended file attributes by the (a) NtQueryInformationFile, (b) NtQueryDirectoryFile, (c) NtSetInformationFile, (d) FileAllInformation, (e) FileNameInformation, and other FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS functions in ntdll.dll and the (f) GetFileAttributesExW and (g) GetFileAttributesW functions in kernel32.dll, a related issue to CVE-2007-1347.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/41064
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/41065

Scores

EPSS 0.1042
EPSS Percentile 95.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/windows_xp
Published Oct 01, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026