CVE-2005-0803

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 67.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The GetEnhMetaFilePaletteEntries API in GDI32.DLL in Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Enhanced Metafile (EMF) file that causes invalid (1) end, (2) emreof, or (3) palent offsets to be used, aka "Enhanced Metafile Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111108743527497&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14631
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223
http://secunia.com/advisories/17461
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015168
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-228.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/134756
http://www.osvdb.org/20580
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12834
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-312A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2348
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-053

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