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CVE-2008-4023

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2008-10-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Active Directory in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 does not properly allocate memory for (1) LDAP and (2) LDAPS requests, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request, aka "Active Directory Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References