Description
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 (wmplayer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .au file that triggers a divide-by-zero error, as demonstrated by iapetus.au.
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 1
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 - AU Divide-by-Zero Denial of Service EDB-30462 · dos · Aug 8, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 25236 vdb-entry
- 2987 third-party-advisory
- win-mediaplayer-au-dos(35878) vdb-entry
- http://www.safehack.com/exp/mp/mplayer11.txt
- 20070808 DoS in Microsoft Media Player 11 on Win XP SP2 mailing-list