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CVE-2006-4183

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2007-07-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Directx Sdk

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References