CVE-2006-4183
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 8.2%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 8.2% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4173)
- Published
- July 18, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4173 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / directx sdk
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=562
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26131(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=52
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474058/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24963
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018420
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2577(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35492
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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