CVE-2006-4183

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
39.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: July 18, 2007 (6874 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectX SDK (February 2006) and probably earlier, including 9.0c End User Runtimes, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Targa file with a run-length-encoding (RLE) compression that produces more data than expected when decoding.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

microsoft directx sdk

References

🔗 labs.idefense.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 www.reversemode.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com