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Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine PICT Heap Corruption Vulnerability

ZDI-08-049: August 12th, 2008

CVE ID

Affected Vendors

Affected Products

    File Format Vulnerability

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Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists in the handling of PICT images in an office document. Due to improper parsing of the bits_per_pixel field in a PICT image a heap overflow can occur. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to a system compromise running under the credentials of the currently logged in user.

Vendor Response

Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2006-09-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2008-08-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Damian Put <pucik@overflow.pl>