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CVE-2006-0020

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 19.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

An unspecified Microsoft WMF parsing application, as used in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4, and 5.5 SP2 on Windows Millennium, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute code via a crafted WMF file with a manipulated WMF header size, possibly involving an integer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4560, and aka "WMF Image Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: r2, sp1
• Microsoft Windows 98: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98Se: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Me: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-January/002828.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18729
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18912
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312956
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspx
• http://www.osvdb.org/22976
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16516
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0469
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-004
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1638
• http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-January/002828.html

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