CVE-2006-0143

medium

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24044

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0115

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421258/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421257/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015453

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/09/417198.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-01-09

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.39042