Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new extensionless 255-character name and launching it with NtCreateUserProcess. This can occur through an issue in wcscat_s error handling.

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CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.2
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

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CVE-2023-42757: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

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