Advisory Details

August 12th, 2014

Microsoft Windows Media Center CSyncBasePlayer Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2014-4060
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Windows Media Center
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows Media Center. 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 within Microsoft Windows Media Center. By providing a specially crafted Office document, it is possible to corrupt certain allocations that lead to memory corruption. An attacker could leverage this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/MS14-043
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2014-04-24 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2014-08-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Alisa Esage (@alisaesage)

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