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Windows Media Player Skin Handling Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:	SA26433	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2007-08-14
Last Update:	2007-08-15
Popularity:	14,678 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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