Microsoft Releases Security Advisory

Microsoft has released security advisory 2490606 to alert users of a vulnerability affecting the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. US-CERT...

Microsoft Warns Of Security Hole in Windows Graphics Engine

Microsoft issued an advisory to Windows users about a security vulnerability in a common Windows component that could be used by remote attackers to run malicious code on machines running the Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. The company said on Tuesday that it is...

Microsoft Windows 'CreateSizedDIBSECTION()' Thumbnail View Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine because the software fails to perform adequate boundary-checks on user-supplied data. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a...

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine Buffer Overflow (MS04-032; CVE-2004-0209)

The Microsoft Windows Metafile Format WMF is used to store pictures and other graphical renderings as either vector or bitmap-format graphical data. The vector data stored in WMF files is described as Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface GDI commands. The WMF format is the original 16-bit...

Microsoft Windows GRE WMF Handling Memory Read Exception (MS06-001; CVE-2006-0143)

The Windows Metafile WMF is a standard Windows image file format. It consists of a set of graphics functions and parameters that describe the steps required to render an image. WMF is a 16-bit format that can contain both vector and bitmap information. A WMF file contains a main header, followed ...

Microsoft Windows GDI+ PNG Processing Integer Overflow (MS09-062; CVE-2009-3126)

The Windows Graphics Rendering Engine is implemented via the Graphics Device Interface GDI subsystem. GDI is a Microsoft standard for representing graphical objects and outputting these representations to devices such as monitors and printers. GDI is capable of representing vector graphics, drawi...

Microsoft WMF File Polypolygon Function Buffer Overflow (MS06-026; CVE-2006-2376)

Microsoft Windows Metafile Format WMF is a proprietary standard for representing graphical objects, mainly vector based graphic. WMF is capable of representing drawing lines, polygons, curves, and fonts. A vulnerability has been discovered in the Graphics Rendering Engine GRE component of Microso...

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine Code Execution (MS07-046; CVE-2007-3034)

The Windows Metafile WMF is a standard Windows image file format. It consists of a set of graphics functions and parameters that describe the steps required to render an image. WMF is a 16-bit format that can contain both vector and bitmap information. A WMF file contains a main header, followed ...

Windows GDI Privilege Elevation

Added: 05/25/2009 CVE: CVE-2006-5758 BID: 20940 OSVDB: 30214 Background The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is created with insecure permissions. Problem Users with local access can remap the shar...

Windows GDI Privilege Elevation

Added: 05/25/2009 CVE: CVE-2006-5758 BID: 20940 OSVDB: 30214 Background The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is created with insecure permissions. Problem Users with local access can remap the shar...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : seamonkey (seamonkey-5657)

This patch updates SeaMonkey to version 1.1.12, fixing security and other bugs : MFSA 2008-45 / CVE-2008-4069: XBM image uninitialized memory reading MFSA 2008-44 / CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068: resource: traversal vulnerabilities MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-42

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-42 Title: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17 Impact: Critical Announced: September 23, 2008 Reporter: Mozilla developers and community Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.0.2 Firefox 2.0.0.17 Thunderbi...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2006-5758

The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a...

CVE-2008-4064

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to graphics rendering and 1 handling of a long alert messagebox in the...

Integer overflow

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to graphics rendering and 1 handling of a long alert messagebox in the...

CVE-2008-4064

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to graphics rendering and 1 handling of a long alert messagebox in the...

CVE-2008-4064

CVE-2008-4064 affects Mozilla Firefox 3.x prior to 3.0.2. The description identifies three concrete vectors contributing to memory safety issues: (1) a memory corruption/possible code execution path via graphics rendering related to a long alert messagebox in cairo_surface_set_device_offset, (2) ...

Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to graphics rendering and 1 handling of a long alert messagebox in the...

CVE-2008-4064

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to graphics rendering and 1 handling of a long alert messagebox in the...

[Full-disclosure] Assurent VR - Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine WMF Parsing Buffer Overflow

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine WMF Parsing Buffer Overflow Assurent ID: FSC20080909-12 1. Affected Software Digital Image Suite 2006 Forefront Client Security 1.0 Microsoft Office 2003 SP2, SP3 Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003 Microsoft Windows XP prior to SP3 Microsoft Window...