Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Windows Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors when processing header information contained in skin files, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted skin file.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Piotr Bania and ZDI.
ChangeLog
2007-08-14 : Initial release
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