Vulnerability: MS09-062 - Critical Vulnerabilities in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957488)
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| Details | |
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| Vulnerability name/brief description | MS09-062 - Critical Vulnerabilities in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957488) |
| CVE/CAN name | CVE-2009-2500, CVE-2009-2501, CVE-2009-2502, CVE-2009-2503, CVE-2009-2504, CVE-2009-2518, CVE-2009-2528, CVE-2009-3126 |
| Vendor threat level | Critical |
| SophosLabs threat level | Medium |
| Solution | Apply updates associated with MS09-062 |
| Vendor description | This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using affected software or browsed a Web site that contains specially crafted content. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. |
| SophosLabs comments | This update addresses several remote code execution vulnerabilities in GDI+. Vulnerable systems could be exploited via malicously crafted WMF, PNG, TIFF, BMP files, or malicious .NET applications. |
| SophosLabs testing result | N/A |
| Currently known exploits | At the time of writing SophosLabs have not observed any malware attempting to exploit this vulnerability. Should this situation change samples will be analyzed and we will take action as necessary. |
| First sample seen | N/A |
| Discovery date | 17 July 2009 |
| Affected software | Microsoft Operating Systems Internet Explorer Microsoft .NET Framework Microsoft Office Other Office Software |
| References | http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms09-062.mspx http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2500 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2501 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2502 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2503 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2504 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2518 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2528 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3126 |
| Credits | Microsoft MAPP program Yamata Li (CVE-2009-2500) Thomas Gamier (CVE-2009-2501) Wushi (CVE-2009-2502) Ivan Fratric (CVE-2009-2503) Tavis Ormandy (CVE-2009-3126) Marsu Pilami (CVE-2009-2528) Carsten H Eiram (CVE-2009-2518) |
| Revisions | October 14th 2009 - Initial analysis written |
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- Article ID: 64693
- Created: 14 Oct 2009
- Last updated: 14 Oct 2009
