Windows Thumbnail View CreateSizedDIBSECTION buffer overflow

Added: 01/14/2011
CVE: CVE-2010-3970
BID: 45662
OSVDB: 70263

Background

The shimgvw.dll library is part of the Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine.

Problem

A vulnerability in shimgvw.dll allows command execution when Windows renders a thumbnail image which passes a specially crafted biClrUsed parameter to the CreateSizedDIBSECTION function.

Resolution

See Microsoft Security Advisory 2490606 for fix information or workarounds.

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/106516

Limitations

Exploit works on Windows Explorer 5.1 on Windows XP.

Platforms

Windows XP

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