CVE-2000-0073: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 20.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 1999-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.