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CVE-2006-2376
Integer overflow in the PolyPolygon function in Graphics Rendering Engine on Microsoft Windows 98 and Me allows remote attackers to…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 41.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in the PolyPolygon function in Graphics Rendering Engine on Microsoft Windows 98 and Me allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Windows Metafile (WMF) or EMF image with a sum of entries in the vertext counts array and number of polygons that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 41.1% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 1094 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ADV-2006-2324 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 26431 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- TA06-164A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20631 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20060613 SYMSA-2006-004: Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MS06-026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- win-gre-wmf-code-execution(26815) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1016286 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#909508 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 18322 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-2377 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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