SmartDefense Security Advisory

Microsoft Windows Canonical Display Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

Industry Reference:CVE-2009-3678.

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll). The Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) is used by desktop composition to blend GDI and DirectX drawing. CDD emulates the interface of a Windows XP display driver for interactions with the Win32k GDI graphics engine. A remote attacker may exploit this issue to create a denial of service condition on a vulnerable system. This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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CPAI-2010-083.

 May 20, 2010

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