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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: 14,012 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

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-3035
CVE-2007-3037


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.

Solution:
Apply patches.

Windows Media Player 7.1 for Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=9f46b1fc-ee7b-437f-9492-67d003711021

Windows Media Player 9 for Windows 2000 SP4 / Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...bd4a6474-5fde-415e-840e-7d973cb71c95

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=48f5a9d3-b859-4cb6-a68e-abde76a14782

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP Professional X64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=949580be-cbb3-4271-8ca0-0ead7f2d8801

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=8d9f1fdf-6d4c-44d4-9b5f-bdbe8ac28d7f

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=2c04c7f2-728e-43bd-8574-26e411fcd129

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=a690d042-1137-4aaf-bd0e-565ea04d1f2b

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP Professional X64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=bdc89f34-c1ff-46ab-b52d-c02d51c5c373

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=80e5167c-4f75-4ce3-8b15-2f50958deec8

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=bf30b714-d6e7-47ea-b79e-84c18370a661

Provided and/or discovered by:
Discovered by Piotr Bania and reported via ZDI.

Changelog:
2007-08-15: Added additional information from ZDI.

Original Advisory:
MS07-047 (KB936782):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-047.mspx

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-046.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-047.html


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