Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Graphics Rendering Engine because of the way that it handles specially crafted images.
Detailed Information on the risk:
An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted image that could potentially allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted attachment in e-mail.
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.Further information on this exploit is available at : MS07-046