36385 : Microsoft Windows Media Player Skin File Handling Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
5	4218	over 4 years ago	about 1 year ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2007-03-19	2007-08-14	2007-08-14

Time to Patch
148 days

Keywords

aka "Windows Media Player Code Execution Vulnerability Parsing Skins"

Description

A buffer overflow exists in Windows Media Player 11. The player fails to handle the space allocated for uncompressing a compressed skin file resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted file, a remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Private, Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Microsoft Corporation has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Windows Media Player	11
		10
		9
		7.1
		11
		10
		9
		7.1

References

Security Tracker: 1018565
CVE ID: 2007-3037 (see also: NVD)
OVAL ID: 2207
Bugtraq ID: 25305
Secunia Advisory ID: 26433
SCIP VulDB ID: 3247
Related OSVDB ID: 36386
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 936782
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-2871
Keyword: aka "Windows Media Player Code Execution Vulnerability Parsing Skins"
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-08/0216.html
News Article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9030696
Other Advisory URL: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-046.html
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS07-047

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Piotr Bania - Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-08-15 | Disagree?

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2007/08/14 17:34:46 | Microsoft fixes 14 flaws in 9 patches; 6 are critical

from: Extra Technology News

Microsoft today released its August 2007 security bulletin, which includes nine updates: Six are designated as "critical" by the software giant and three are deemed "important." Two patches affect Microsoft products on the Mac, and one affects Windows Vista

2007/08/15 03:22:08 | CVE-2007-3037

from: EclipseSSL : Дневник (Журнал/Блог)

Unspecified vulnerability in 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 is not properly handled during decompression. en.securitylab.ru/nvd/301270.php

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