CVE-2006-0488: Microsoft Windows 2000

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2006-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.