Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the color management module when validating ICC profile format tags. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into visiting a malicious web site or view a malicious e-mail message containing a specially crafted image file.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
NOTE: According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is already being exploited.
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