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Windows Media Player Skin Handling Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA26433
Release Date: 2007-08-14
Last Update: 2007-08-15
Popularity: 17,581 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 11.x
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.x
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.x

Binary Analysis: BA206 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Windows Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the parsing of header information in skin files can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a user's system by tricking the user into visiting a malicious website or opening a malicious skin file.

2) An error in the decompression of skin files can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a user's system by tricking the user into visiting a malicious website or opening a malicious skin file.

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