Microsoft Windows 2000 supports the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. WebDAV, defined in RFC 2518, is a set of extensions to the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that provide a standard for editing & file management between computers on the Internet. A security vulnerability is present in a Windows component used by WebDAV, & results because the component contains an unchecked buffer.

Affected Software:
Microsoft Windows 2000

Patch availability;
All except Japanese NEC (http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C9A38D45-5145-4844-B62E-C69D32AC929B&displaylang=en)
Japanese NEC (http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBCF9847-D3D6-4493-8DCF-9BA29263C49F&displaylang=ja)