5252 : Microsoft Windows Metafile Code Execution
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
7	1121	about 9 years ago	about 3 years ago	4 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-04-13

Time to Patch	Days of Exposure
164 days	164 days

Description

A remote overflow exists in Windows. The GDI32.dll PlayMetaFileRecord() API fails to validate Windows metafile-format images resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Windows	NT 4.0 Workstation SP6a
		NT 4.0 Server SP6a
		NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition SP 6
		2000 SP2
		2000 SP3
		2000 SP4
		XP 64-bit Edition SP1
		XP
		XP SP1

References

Security Tracker: 1009756 1009768
OVAL ID: 1064 897 959
Secunia Advisory ID: 11064
ISS X-Force ID: 15818
CVE ID: 2003-0906 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 5248 5249 5250 5251 5253 5254 5255 5256 5257 5258 5259 5260 5261
CERT VU: 547028
SCIP VulDB ID: 603
Other Advisory URL: http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20040413F.html
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20040413F.html [ Link is 404 ]
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS04-011
CIAC Advisory: o-114
US-CERT Cyber Security Alert: TA04-104A

Tools & Filters

	12209
Snort	2435 2436

Credit

Yuji Ukai - eEye Digital Security

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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