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Feast day December 27

W WMF SetAbortProc CVE-2005-4560
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Saint WMF SetAbortProc

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Technical record

Disclosed on
December 27 2005
CVE
CVE-2005-4560

The Windows Graphical Device Interface library (GDI32.DLL) in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Windows Metafile (WMF) format image with a crafted SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function call, related to the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (SHIMGVW.DLL), a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2123 and CVE-2005-2124, and as originally discovered in the wild on unionseek.com.

Sources: cve.org · learn.microsoft.com · kb.cert.org · isc.sans.edu

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