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Windows Media Player Bitmap File Processing Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA18835  
Release Date: 2006-02-14
Last Update: 2006-02-28

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Microsoft Windows Media Player 10.x
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.x
Microsoft Windows Media Player 8.x
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-0006 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
eEye Digital Security has reported a vulnerability in Windows Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processing of bitmap files (.bmp) and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted bitmap file that declares its size as 0.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious web site, opens a malicious bitmap file (Windows Media Player is not the default handler for bitmap files), or opens a file (e.g. Word document) containing a malicious Windows Media Player (.wmp) image.

The following supported products and product combinations are NOT vulnerable:
* Windows Media Player 6.4
* Windows Media Player 10 on Windows Server 2003 SP1
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
* Windows Server 2003 (with or without SP1) for Itanium-based systems
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
Apply patch.

Windows Media Player for XP on Windows XP SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=110054F2-244D-4036-B98C-E951CBA7E9BA

Windows Media Player 9 on Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=8F9EEF16-04F7-4DA8-A0EF-1797B52D0B4B

Windows Media Player 9 on Windows Server 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=8F9EEF16-04F7-4DA8-A0EF-1797B52D0B4B

Windows Media Player 7.1 on Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=26A0B9E1-1242-4E55-B3D4-8377B83257C6

Windows Media Player 9 on Windows 2000 SP4 / Windows XP SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=8F9EEF16-04F7-4DA8-A0EF-1797B52D0B4B

Windows Media Player 10 on Windows XP SP1 / SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=182735E1-9382-4F2E-A624-D2316A96B411

Windows XP Embedded SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...-b356-45eb3f4c2f1b&DisplayLang=en

Windows XP Embedded SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...-b519-576cfab9d55f&DisplayLang=en

Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows ME:
Patches are available via the Windows Update web site.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Fang Xing, eEye Digital Security.

Changelog:
2006-02-15: Added additional information provided by eEye. Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2006-02-28: Added fixes for Windows XP Embedded.

Original Advisory:
MS06-005 (KB911565):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-005.mspx

eEye Digital Security:
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20060214.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#291396:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/291396



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

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