CVE-2006-4183: Microsoft DirectX SDK

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 8.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectX SDK (February 2006) and probably earlier, including 9.0c End User Runtimes, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Targa file with a run-length-encoding (RLE) compression that produces more data than expected when decoding.

Affected products

• Microsoft DirectX SDK: version february_2006 only

Published 2007-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.