Buffer Overflow in Clipart Gallery Reported March 6, 2000 by Dildog
The Microsoft Clip Art Gallery software is used to
allow users to retrieve and use clip art in their documents. One of the features of the
Clip Art Gallery allows the user to download additional clips from the Microsoft Clip
Gallery Live web site, and then install that clip art on their computer. To do this, Clip
Art Gallery and Clip Gallery Live use a file format called the CIL format to contain the
newly downloaded clips. Under certain circumstances, a very long field embedded in a clip
art CIL file could cause a buffer overrun in the Clip Art Gallery software. The buffer
overrun could cause the software to crash or, under certain circumstances, could cause the
execution of hostile code on the computer where the Clip Art Gallery software was
executing. Microsoft has issued a patch as well as a FAQ for the problem. CREDITS |
Buffer Overflow in Clipart Gallery
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