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Windows Media Player ActiveX Control Two Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13578
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Release Date:
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2004-12-20
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Last Update:
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2005-01-06
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Popularity:
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27,519 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Manipulation of data
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Partial Fix
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| Software: | Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-1324
CVE-2004-1325
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Description:
Arman Nayyeri has discovered two vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system information, and modify or disclose some sensitive information.
1) An error in the "getItemInfoByAtom()" function in the Windows Media Player ActiveX control can be exploited by e.g. a malicious web site to determine the presence and size of local files.
2) Some errors in the "setItemInfo()" and "getItemInfo()" functions in the Windows Media Player ActiveX control can be exploited by e.g. a malicious web site to modify or disclose local media information (e.g. artist, album, and song name of a .wma file).
The vulnerabilities have been confirmed on a fully patched system with Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 and Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 / XP SP1 / XP SP2.
Solution:
Microsoft Windows XP:
Update to version 10.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...-80d5-cde4bbe07999&displaylang=en
Set security level to high for the "Internet" zone (disable ActiveX support).
Provided and/or discovered by:
Arman Nayyeri
Changelog:
2005-01-06: Added CVE references.
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