CVE-2000-0331

Summary

CVE-2000-0331 is a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Microsoft's command processor (CMD.EXE) in Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems. This issue arises when the software fails to properly manage long environment variables, leading to excessive data being written to a buffer and potentially triggering a denial of service condition. A local user can intentionally craft a malformed environment variable to exploit this flaw and cause the system to crash or become unresponsive, disrupting regular operations.

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