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critical 9.3

CVE-2007-0038 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the animated cursor code in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbi…

published 2007-03-30 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-0042

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
73.1%
EPSS 73.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
17
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the animated cursor code in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (persistent reboot) via a large length value in the second (or later) anih block of a RIFF .ANI, cur, or .ico file, which results in memory corruption when processing cursors, animated cursors, and icons, a variant of CVE-2005-0416, as originally demonstrated using Internet Explorer 6 and 7. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-1765; if so, then CVE-2007-0038 should be preferred.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms07_017_ani_loadimage_chunksize)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

73.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms07_017_ani_loadimage_chunksize Windows ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (HTTP) metasploit exploit, great rank, 2007-03-28
  • Metasploit exploit/windows/email/ms07_017_ani_loadimage_chunksize Windows ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (SMTP) metasploit exploit, great rank, 2007-03-28
  • EDB-16698 Microsoft Windows - ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (SMTP) (MS07-017) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-09-20
  • EDB-16526 Microsoft Windows - ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (HTTP) (MS07-017) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-08-12
  • EDB-4045 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor Stack Overflow remote, 2007-06-07
  • EDB-3804 Microsoft Windows - '.ani' GDI Remote Privilege Escalation (MS07-017) remote, 2007-04-26
  • EDB-3755 Microsoft Windows - GDI Privilege Escalation (MS07-017) (2) local, 2007-04-17
  • EDB-3695 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Overflow local, 2007-04-09
  • EDB-3688 Microsoft Windows - GDI Privilege Escalation (MS07-017) (1) local, 2007-04-08
  • EDB-3684 Microsoft Windows Explorer - '.ANI' File Denial of Service dos, 2007-04-08
  • EDB-3652 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Overflow (Hardware DEP) local, 2007-04-03
  • EDB-3651 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Universal Generator remote, 2007-04-03
  • EDB-3647 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Buffer Overflow local, 2007-04-02
  • EDB-3636 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Remote (eeye patch Bypass) remote, 2007-04-01
  • EDB-3635 Microsoft Windows XP - Animated Cursor '.ani' Remote Overflow (2) remote, 2007-04-01
  • EDB-3634 Microsoft Windows XP/Vista - Animated Cursor '.ani' Remote Overflow remote, 2007-04-01
  • EDB-3617 Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Stack Overflow local, 2007-03-31

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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