Re: GDI+ and Internet Explorer question

H D Moore <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:02:59 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

IE has its own image decoders for many image types (jpeg, ico, etc). You 
can trigger this bug remotely by renaming your .ico to .emf or .wmf, 
which forces it be opened by the Picture and Fax Viewer using GDI+.

-HD

On Saturday 09 June 2007 06:40, [email protected] wrote:
> fails to crash my Internet Explorer. So I was wondering, does Internet
> Explorer utilizes GDI+ for image decoding? If it does not, what
> component(s) does it use?