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Microsoft Security Advisory MS01-013 - The Windows 2000 event viewer snap-in has an unchecked buffer in a section of the code that displays the detailed view of event records. If the event viewer attempts to display an event record that contains specially malformed data in one of the fields, code of the attacker's choice can be made to run with the privileges of the user running the event viewer. Microsoft FAQ on this issue available here.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS01-013 - The Windows 2000 event viewer snap-in has an unchecked buffer in a section of the code that displays the detailed view of event records. If the event viewer attempts to display an event record that contains specially malformed data in one of the fields, code of the attacker's choice can be made to run with the privileges of the user running the event viewer. Microsoft FAQ on this issue available here.