CVE-2006-0143

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 31.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via a WMF file containing (1) ExtCreateRegion or (2) ExtEscape function calls with arguments with inconsistent lengths.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: datacenter_64-bit-sp1, enterprise, enterprise-sp1, enterprise_64-bit, enterprise_64-bit-sp1, r2 (+6)
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://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/09/417198.aspx
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015453
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421257/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421258/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16167
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0115
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24044
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/09/417198.aspx
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015453
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421257/100/0/threaded

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