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Windows Media Player Bitmap File Processing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18835
Release Date: 2006-02-14
Last Update: 2006-02-28
Popularity: 20,493 views

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

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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

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