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high 7.5

CVE-2006-0143 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via a WMF…

published 2006-01-09 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0151

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
31.3%
EPSS 31.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via a WMF file containing (1) ExtCreateRegion or (2) ExtEscape function calls with arguments with inconsistent lengths.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-27051)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

31.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-27051 Microsoft Windows - Graphics Rendering Engine Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities dos, 2006-01-09
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16167 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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