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CVE-2007-1765

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 54.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (persistent reboot) via a malformed ANI file, which results in memory corruption when processing cursors, animated cursors, and icons, a similar issue to CVE-2005-0416, as originally demonstrated using Internet Explorer 6 and 7. NOTE: this issue might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0038; if so, then use CVE-2007-0038 instead of this identifier.

Affected products

• Avaya Definity One Media Server: all versions
• Avaya Ip600 Media Servers: all versions
• Avaya S3400: all versions
• Avaya S8100: all versions
• Microsoft Ie: 7.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 6
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/03/any-ani-file-could-infect-you/
• http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20070328.html
• http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_141860.htm
• http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=230
• http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=233
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspx
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464287/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464345/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23194
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017827
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1151
• http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/03/any-ani-file-could-infect-you/

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