Advisory Details

August 14th, 2007

Microsoft Windows Media Player Skin Parsing Size Mismatch Heap Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-07-046
ZDI-CAN-182

CVE ID CVE-2007-3037
CVSS SCORE
AFFECTED VENDORS Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS Windows Media Player 7
Windows Media Player 9
Windows Media Player 10
Windows Media Player 11
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['5535']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows Media Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists during the parsing of malformed skin files (WMZ). A size compressed / decompressed size mismatch can result in an under allocated heap buffer which can be leveraged by an attacker to eventually execute arbitrary code under the context of the current user.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS07-047.mspx
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2007-03-19 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2007-08-14 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Piotr Bania
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