Description
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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 9/10 - '.mid' Denial of Service EDB-2935 · dos · Dec 15, 2006 · verified
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4/10.0 - MID Malformed Header Chunk Denial of Service EDB-29285 · dos · Dec 15, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20061215 Windows Media MID File Denial Of Service Vulnerability mailing-list
- ADV-2006-5039 vdb-entry
- 20061215 Media .MID file DoS extra info mailing-list
- 21612 vdb-entry