CVE-2006-0020 — An unspecified Microsoft WMF parsing application, as used in Internet Explorer 5

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2006-01-10T21:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-07T16:18:20.734Z

09References

• oval.cisecurity.org — https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3…
• www.osvdb.org — http://www.osvdb.org/22976
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/18912
• linuxbox.org — http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-January/002828.html
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/18729
• www.microsoft.com — http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspx
• www.kb.cert.org — http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312956
• www.vupen.com — http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0469
• www.us-cert.gov — http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.html
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16516
• docs.microsoft.com — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-00…