CVE-2005-4625
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedDrivers for certain display adapters, including (1) an unspecified ATI driver and (2) an unspecified Intel driver, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large JPEG image, as demonstrated in Internet Explorer using stoopid.jpg with a width and height of 9999999.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceDisplay drivers for certain ATI and Intel graphics adapters fail to properly handle malformed JPEG images with extremely large dimensions (9999999x9999999), causing a system crash when processed through Internet Explorer. This is a client-side denial of service vulnerability in legacy display driver image parsing code.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Complete
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify installed graphics hardwareOpen Device Manager, expand 'Display adapters' to see if the system has ATI, AMD, or Intel graphics hardware installedAffected if The system has ATI Catalyst or Intel Display Adapter hardware listed in Device Manager
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Check display driver versionRight-click the graphics device in Device Manager, select Properties, view the Driver tab to see the installed driver version and dateAffected if Any version of ATI Catalyst or Intel Display Adapter driver is installed - the vulnerability affects all versions of these drivers
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Confirm browser contextCheck if Internet Explorer or legacy browsers are in use, or if applications process images from untrusted web sources through the display driverAffected if Internet Explorer or similar legacy browser is used to render images from untrusted sources, as this is the attack vector for triggering the malformed JPEG processing
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Verify driver is legacyCompare the installed driver version and date against current versions available from ATI/Intel support pagesAffected if The installed driver is older or the system has not received recent display driver updates, as the vulnerability exists in legacy driver code
A system is affected if it has ATI Catalyst or Intel Display Adapter graphics hardware with any driver version installed and processes malformed JPEG images through Internet Explorer or similar untrusted context.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate display drivers to current versions from ATI/Intel, or disable image rendering in untrusted contexts. For legacy systems, consider isolating affected machines or implementing application whitelisting to prevent browser-based image processing of untrusted content.
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