CVE-2006-0020
highpriority · track · 44EPSS 0.191 · 97 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An unspecified Microsoft WMF parsing application, as used in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4, and 5.5 SP2 on Windows Millennium, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute code via a crafted WMF file with a manipulated WMF header size, possibly involving an integer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4560, and aka "WMF Image Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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affected products (8)
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references (22)
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- http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-January/002828.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18729enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18912enisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312956enisa_euvd
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspxenisa_euvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/22976enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16516enisa_euvd
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.htmlenisa_euvd
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