Title: Microsoft Windows Media Player WAV File Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Microsoft Windows Media Player is a multimedia application available for the Windows operating system.
The application is prone to a code-execution vulnerability when handling a malformed WAV file.
An attacker can exploit this issue by tricking an unsuspecting victim into opening a malicious file with the vulnerable application. A successful exploit will allow arbitrary code to run in the context of the user running the application.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 10.0
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
References:
- Microsoft: Windows Media Player Product Homepage
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