A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in Microsoft Paint when decoding malformed JPEG images, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted JPEG file.

Affected Products

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Itanium)

Solution

Apply patch for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5861705-8f49-45cb-8a92-cf052ccf4134

Apply patch for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b2e70df6-7728-4fc3-8df7-8ddb9ba5202f

Apply patch for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8c4acc8-c2f4-41f7-9b32-e7bd791e0155

Apply patch for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c1efbe73-fc87-4e6a-8b36-81f125a27aec

Apply patch for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9143e435-f0d6-464b-9273-4d1f38f8ff3a

Apply patch for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Itanium):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ee603435-26af-4ab9-9f22-92734346dc0a

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0338
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-005.mspx

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Private Exploit or PoC

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Credits

Vulnerability reported by Tielei Wang (ICST-ERCIS / Engineering Research Center of Info Security, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University/China) via Secunia.

Changelog

2010-02-09 : Initial release

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