CVE-2005-0416: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the AnimationHeaderBlock length field, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version web only
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.