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Sid
17330

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in windows 2000.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via a WMF file containing (1) ExtCreateRegion or (2) ExtEscape function calls with arguments with inconsistent lengths.

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Affected Systems:
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 
microsoft windows 2000 

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2006-0143:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-0143
  
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