CVE-2016-3393

What is affected

Vendor	Microsoft
Product	Windows
Weakness	CWE-284

The vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to the way the Windows GDI component handles objects in the memory. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could take control of the affected system.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 June 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 21:26. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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