Buffer overflow in Microsoft Directx Sdk

CVE-2006-4183

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.082 (94.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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