CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0038

9.3 HIGH Published 2007-03-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
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 configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2003 server gold • microsoft windows 2003 server sp1 • microsoft windows 2003 server sp2 • microsoft windows vista • microsoft windows xp

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References