Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-3678

Title: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-3678.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date May 14, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

12.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-3678: Integer overflow in cdd.dll in the Canonical Display Driver (CDD) in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on 64-bit platforms, when the Windows Aero theme is installed, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file that triggers incorrect data parsing after user-mode data is copied to kernel mode, as demonstrated using "Browse with Irfanview" and certain actions on a folder containing a large number of thumbnail images in Resample mode, possibly related to the ATI graphics driver or win32k.sys, aka "Canonical Display Driver Integer Overflow Vulnerability."

Impacted Vendors

microsoft 2

Reference Links

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/05/18/security-advisory-2028859-released.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2010/05/18/cdd-dll-vulnerability-difficult-to-exploit.aspx http://en.irfanview-forum.de/vb/showthread.php?5647-V4-25-bluescreen-with-Windows-7-cdd-dll-win32k-sys http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8809 http://osvdb.org/64731 http://pcandmactech.blogspot.com/2009/12/irfanview-and-bsod.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39577 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2028859.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40237 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-194A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1178 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-043 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58622 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7195 http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/05/18/security-advisory-2028859-released.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2010/05/18/cdd-dll-vulnerability-difficult-to-exploit.aspx http://en.irfanview-forum.de/vb/showthread.php?5647-V4-25-bluescreen-with-Windows-7-cdd-dll-win32k-sys http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8809 http://osvdb.org/64731 http://pcandmactech.blogspot.com/2009/12/irfanview-and-bsod.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39577 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2028859.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40237 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-194A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1178 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-043 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58622 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7195

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns