Vulnerability CVE-2006-6601
Published: 2006-12-15   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Windows -> Media player 
Microsoft -> Windows xp 

 References:
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-December/001182.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454505/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21612
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5039
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