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CVE-2007-0038

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 73.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the animated cursor code in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (persistent reboot) via a large length value in the second (or later) anih block of a RIFF .ANI, cur, or .ico file, which results in memory corruption when processing cursors, animated cursors, and icons, a variant of CVE-2005-0416, as originally demonstrated using Internet Explorer 6 and 7. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-1765; if so, then CVE-2007-0038 should be preferred.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: gold, sp1, sp2
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-03/0470.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24659
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2542
• http://www.determina.com/security_center/security_advisories/securityadvisory_0day_032907.asp
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191609
• http://www.osvdb.org/33629
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464269/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464339/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464340/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464342/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464459/100/100/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464460/100/100/threaded

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