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The Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 command processor (CMD.EXE) does not correctly constrain the length of environment strings that it receives. If CMD.EXE received an excessively-long environment string, it would crash. Under certain conditions, this could cause the memory allocated to the process to become temporarily unavailable.
