CVE-2013-3174

critical
Published 2013-07-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

DirectShow in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF file, aka "DirectShow Arbitrary Memory Overwrite Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-27050 dos windows
Andrés Gómez Ramírez · 2013-07-23

Microsoft DirectShow - Arbitrary Memory Overwrite (MS13-056)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

windows Windows Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
- Affected
Affected

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.