CVE-2006-4183

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectX SDK (February 2006) and probably earlier, including 9.0c End User Runtimes, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Targa file with a run-length-encoding (RLE) compression that produces more data than expected when decoding.

Affected products

Microsoft Directx Sdk: february_2006

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=562
http://secunia.com/advisories/26131
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=52
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474058/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24963
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018420
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2577
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35492
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=562
http://secunia.com/advisories/26131
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=52
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474058/100/0/threaded

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