6.2
CVSSv2

CVE-1999-0700

Published: 29/07/1999 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 1.9
VMScore: 625
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Phone Dialer (dialer.exe), via a malformed dialer entry in the dialer.ini file.

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microsoft windows nt 4.0

microsoft windows nt

microsoft windows 2000

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/554/info Dialerexe has an unchecked buffer in the part of the program that reads dialer entries from %systemroot%\dialerini A specially-formed entry could cause arbitrary code to be run on the machine By default, the %systemroot% folder is world-writeable Dialerini is Dialer runs in the security conte ...