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CVE-2006-0020 Detail

Current Description

An unspecified Microsoft WMF parsing application, as used in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4, and 5.5 SP2 on Windows Millennium, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute code via a crafted WMF file with a manipulated WMF header size, possibly involving an integer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4560, and aka "WMF Image Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."


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Hyperlink Resource
http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-January/002828.html Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312956 Patch  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspx Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16516 Patch 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.html Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0469
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-004
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1638

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-0020
NVD Published Date:
01/10/2006
NVD Last Modified:
10/12/2018
Source:
Microsoft Corporation