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Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the parsing of WMF images and can be exploited to corrupt system memory.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code on a user's system by e.g. tricking the user to visit a malicious web site hosting a specially crafted WMF file or via an email message containing a specially crafted attachment.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
* Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 on Microsoft Windows Millennium.

The vulnerability does not affect the following versions of Windows:
* Windows XP Service Pack 1
* Windows XP Service Pack 2
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
* Windows Server 2003
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
* Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
* Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 for Itanium-based Systems
* Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

NOTE: The vulnerability may also be exploitable through other applications handling WMF images.

Solution
Apply patch.
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Changelog
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Original Advisory
Microsoft KB913333:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspx

MS06-004 (KB910620):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-004.mspx

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