HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-0106

Wine vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.2%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
gdi/driver.c and gdi/printdrv.c in Wine 20050930, and other versions, implement the SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function call for Windows Metafile (WMF) files, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code, the same vulnerability as CVE-2005-4560 but in a different codebase.
Affected vendor
Wine
Affected product
Wine
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-01-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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