A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the PNG processing code when handling malformed images, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Greg MacManus
ChangeLog
2006-06-13 : Initial release
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