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Microsoft Windows EMF File Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA14631

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Release Date:

2005-03-18

Last Update:

2005-11-09

Popularity:

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Critical:

Not critical

Impact:

DoS

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

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Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
Hongzhen Zhou has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of EMF (Microsoft Enhanced Metafile) files in the "GetEnhMetaFilePaletteEntries()" API in "GDI32.DLL". This can be exploited to crash an affected application using the vulnerable API.

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