CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0143

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via a specially crafted WMF file containing ExtCreateRegion or ExtEscape function calls with inconsistent argument lengths.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential remote code execution or system disruption through a malicious WMF file, leading to data loss or service downtime.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply Microsoft security patches immediately and block processing of WMF files from untrusted sources.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS