CVE-2006-0143

N/A Unknown

Published: January 09, 2006 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015453

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421257/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421258/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16167

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0115

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24044

Source: cve@mitre.org

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