A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "AttemptWrite()" function within the Graphics Rendering Engine (GDI) when handling specially crafted images, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file or document.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by eEye Digital Security.
ChangeLog
2007-08-14 : Initial release
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