CVE-2006-0010: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 33.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in T2EMBED.DLL in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 up to SP1, Windows 98, and Windows ME allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message or web page with a crafted Embedded Open Type (EOT) web font that triggers the overflow during decompression.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version datacenter_64-bit only; version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version standard_64-bit only; …
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 3.5.1 only; version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2006-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.