Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine Thumbnail Image Stack Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2010-3970)

Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's Graphics Rendering Engine. The vulnerability is due t...

Windows Thumbnail View CreateSizedDIBSECTION buffer overflow

Added: 01/14/2011 CVE: CVE-2010-3970 BID: 45662 OSVDB: 70263 Background The shimgvw.dll library is part of the Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine. Problem A vulnerability in shimgvw.dll allows command execution when Windows renders a thumbnail image which passes a specially crafted biClrUsed...