GDI+ and Internet Explorer question

[gljuposti () gmail com]

> From reading about previous GDI+ vulnerability reports (such as JPEG overflow) I got an impression that Internet 
> Explorer was using GDI+ to decode images. However, looking at the newfound GDI+ ICO vulnerability, I noticed that the 
> PoC 

http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/24346.ico

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?
TIA