Description: A vulnerability has been identified in DirectX allowing malicious people to gain system access.
The problem is two unchecked buffers in "QUARTZ.DLL" which is part of DirectX which allows malicious people to create a MIDI (audio) file which cause a buffer overflow. This could be exploited to run arbitrary code in the context of the logged in user.
MIDI files may be embedded in HTML documents like web pages and emails.
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