CVE-2006-0020

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."

• CWE-189

• http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-January/002828.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18729Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18912Vendor Advisory
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312956Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspxVendor Advisory
• http://www.osvdb.org/22976
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16516Patch
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• 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.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18729Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18912Vendor Advisory
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312956Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspxVendor Advisory
• http://www.osvdb.org/22976
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16516Patch
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• 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

Published

Jan 10, 2006

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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