CVE-2006-7210
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 - Denial of Service via Crafted PNG IHDR Block
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 3 public exploits for CVE-2006-7210. PoCs published by vegas78, Preddy.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit is a proof-of-concept for a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows PNG IHDR block handling. It creates a malformed PNG file that causes 100% CPU usage when viewed in Windows Explorer, requiring a restart of explorer.exe to recover.
Description
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cpu consumption) via a PNG image with crafted (1) Width and (2) Height values in the IHDR block.
Exploits (3)
This exploit is a proof-of-concept for a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows PNG IHDR block handling. It creates a malformed PNG file that causes 100% CPU usage when viewed in Windows Explorer, requiring a restart of explorer.exe to recover.
This exploit is a proof-of-concept for CVE-2006-7210, which targets a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows' handling of PNG IHDR blocks. The code generates a malformed PNG file that causes 100% CPU usage when processed by Windows Explorer.
This Perl script generates a malformed PNG file with an invalid IHDR block, triggering a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in Microsoft Windows systems by causing 100% CPU usage in explorer.exe. The exploit leverages a vulnerability in PNG image parsing to achieve the DoS effect.