--- title: "CVE-2005-4560\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-4560?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2005-4560 Publication date 28 December 2005 Last updated 17 July 2025 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description The Windows Graphical Device Interface library (GDI32.DLL) in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Windows Metafile (WMF) format image with a crafted SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function call, related to the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (SHIMGVW.DLL), a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2123 and CVE-2005-2124, and as originally discovered in the wild on unionseek.com. ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | wine | 7.04 feisty | Ignored end of life, was needed | | 6.10 edgy | Ignored end of life, was needed | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 0.9.9-0ubuntu2 | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4560) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4560) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2005-4560) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4560) ### Other references *