Microsoft Windows Media Player SSPL File Sample Rate Remote Code-Execution Vulnerability
September 16th, 2008
Not 24 hours after I posted about media player vulnerabilities this one was released. This vulnerability was reported by the vendor (Microsoft) and has luckily updates are already available. Hopefully nobody figures this out before the majority of people have updated.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30550/info
Microsoft Windows Media Player is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability.
An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.
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