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CVE-2007-3037 (GCVE-0-2007-3037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-14 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:57
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1, 9, 10, and 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a skin file (WMZ or WMD) with crafted header information that causes a size mismatch between compressed and decompressed data and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Windows Media Player Code Execution Vulnerability Parsing Skins."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/26433 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-0… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25307 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476533/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2007-08-14 00:00
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