A vulnerabilitiy has been identified in Microsoft Windows Media Player, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to a division by zero error when handling a specially crafted MIDI file with a header chunk containing malformed fields (i.e. number of tracks and delta time), which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application via a specially crafted file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by sehato
ChangeLog
2006-12-17 : Initial release
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