Jérôme Dallaire

Improper control of code generation leads to a code injection issue, allowing an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

A heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the Windows Imaging Component, which allows an unauthorized remote attacker to execute arbitrary code over a network and affect the system. A heap-based buffer overflow is a memory corruption issue that happens when a program writes more data to a heap-allocated memory block than it can hold.