Overview
Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
Description
The Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine supports a number of image formats including Windows Metafile (WMF). An unspecified vulnerability exists in the way that the Graphics Rendering Engine included with some versions of Microsoft Windows handles WMF image files. |
Impact
By persuading a user to open a specially crafted WMF image file, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. This specially crafted WMF image file could be supplied on a web page, in an email message, or by other means. |
Solution
Apply a patch Microsoft has published patches for this issue in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-026. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Microsoft for reporting this vulnerability. Microsoft, in turn, credits Peter Ferrie of Symantec with reporting this issue to them.
This document was written by Chad R Dougherty.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-2376 |
| Severity Metric: | 22.50 |
| Date Public: | 2006-06-13 |
| Date First Published: | 2006-06-13 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2006-06-13 20:25 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 7 |