CVE-2006-0143

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via a WMF file containing (1) ExtCreateRegion or (2) ExtEscape function calls with arguments with inconsistent lengths.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 19 years ago

2006-01-09 20:03:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-30 14:27:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft windows 2000_sp1

Microsoft windows 2000_sp2

Microsoft windows 2000_sp3

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

Microsoft windows 98_gold

Microsoft windows 98_se

Microsoft Windows ME

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Gold

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 Home Edition

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 media_center

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Home Edition

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 media_center

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 tablet_pc

References

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/09/417198.aspx

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html

1015453

Patch

20060107 Microsoft Windows GRE WMF Format Multiple Memory Overrun Vulnerabilities

20060109 [UPDATE]Microsoft Windows GRE WMF Format Multiple Unauthorized Memory Access Vulnerabilities

16167

Exploit

ADV-2006-0115

Vendor Advisory

win-gre-wmf-dos(24044)

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