CVE-2006-6601 (GCVE-0-2006-6601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-15 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:33
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Summary
Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4036 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a .MID (MIDI) file with a malformed header chunk without any track chunks, possibly involving (1) number of tracks of (2) time division fields that are set to 0.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2006-12-15 00:00
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