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CVE-2006-6601

Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4036 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial o

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.42806
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules3 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

2
windows media playerall versions
microsoft windows xpall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

2
dosMicrosoft Windows Media Player 6.4/10.0 - MID Malformed Header Chunk Denial of Serviceverified
dosMicrosoft Windows Media Player 9/10 - '.mid' Denial of Serviceverified
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Sigma Hunt Rules

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Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
producthighUAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - File
producthighUAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - Process
producthighUAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - Registry
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Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD15 Dec 2006 · 10:28 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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/2006/5039Vendor Advisory
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