CVE-2006-4183

Published Jul 18, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectX SDK (February 2006) and probably earlier, including 9.0c End User Runtimes, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Targa file with a run-length-encoding (RLE) compression that produces more data than expected when decoding.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.8
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-119

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:directx_sdk:february_2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "7D42316C-79D4-4406-B950-42A0DD8376A9"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References