MS.Windows.GRE.WMF.Handling.Memory.Read.Exception
Description
This indicates an attempt to exploit a denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine.
Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service. The vulnerability can be exploited to cause an application crash via a WMF file containing ExtCreateRegion or ExtEscape function calls with arguments with inconsistent lengths.
Affected Products
Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Microsoft Windows XP SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows ME
Microsoft Windows 98se
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 2000SP4
Impact
Denial of service.
Recommended Actions
Unregister the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw.dll)(see MS06-001).
Telemetry
Coverage
IPS (Regular DB) | |
IPS (Extended DB) |
Version Updates
Date | Version | Detail |
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2019-05-16 | 14.615 | Sig Added |