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CVE-2006-4183
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectX SDK (February 2006) and probably earlier, including 9.0c End User Runtimes, allows…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 8.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.1% 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: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=52 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070718 Microsoft DirectX RLE Compressed Targa Image File Heap Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 1018420 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 24963 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- directx-targa-bo(35492) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 26131 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070718 [Reversemode Advisory] Microsoft DirectX RLE Compressed Targa Image File Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2577 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2006-4173 (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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