CVE-2004-1049

A vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows LoadImage API , which is used for loading and rendering graphical resources like icons, cursors, and bitmaps. The API fails to properly validate image sizes, leading to an integer overflow and subsequent heap memory overflow . This flaw can be explo...

CVE-2004-1049: Undefined Security Weakness

Integer overflow in the LoadImage API of the USER32 Lib for Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .bmp, .cur, .ico or .ani file with a large image size field, which leads to a buffer overflow, aka the "Cursor and Icon Format Handling Vulnerability."...