National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4327

Overview

gdiplus.dll in GDI+ in Microsoft Windows XP SP3 does not properly handle crafted .ico files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a certain crash.ico file on a web site, and allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and persistent application crash) via this crash.ico file on the desktop, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2237.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: windowsxp-gdiplus-dos(45464)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45464

External Source: BID

Name: 31432

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31432

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 6588

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6588