CVE-2000-0885: Microsoft Systems Management Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long Browser Name in a CIFS Browse Frame, a long SNMP community name, or a long username or filename in an SMB session, aka the "Netmon Protocol Parsing" vulnerability. NOTE: It is highly likely that this candidate will be split into multiple candidates.

Affected products

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server: version 1.2 only; version 2.0 only
  • Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
  • Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.