Microsoft Media Player up to 10.x Skin Decompressor memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Microsoft Media Player up to 10.x. This affects an unknown part of the component Skin Decompressor. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2007-3037. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Media Player up to 10.x (Multimedia Player Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Skin Decompressor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1, 9, 10, and 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a skin file (WMZ or WMD) with crafted header information that causes a size mismatch between compressed and decompressed data and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Windows Media Player Code Execution Vulnerability Parsing Skins."

The bug was discovered 08/14/2007. The weakness was disclosed 08/14/2007 by Piotr Bania (TippingPoint) with TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative as MS07-047 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). It is possible to read the advisory at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-3037 since 06/05/2007. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25885 (MS07-047: Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936782)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 90406 (Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS07-047)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch MS07-047 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 5535.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (35741), Tenable (25885), SecurityFocus (BID 25307†), OSVDB (36385†) and Secunia (SA26433†). The entry VDB-3246 is pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 25885
Nessus Name: MS07-047: Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936782)
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OpenVAS ID: 801714
OpenVAS Name: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936782)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: MS07-047
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS07-047
Researcher: Piotr Bania (TippingPoint)
Organization: TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-3037 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-3037
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-3247

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X-Force: 35741
SecurityFocus: 25307 - Microsoft Windows Media Player Remote Skin Decompression Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 26433
OSVDB: 36385 - Microsoft Windows Media Player Skin File Handling Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1018565
Vulnerability Center: 15873 - [MS07-047] Windows Media Player Vulnerability Allows Code Execution via Crafted Skin File Parsing, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2007-2871

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/20/2007 08:42
Updated: 07/23/2019 16:05
Changes: 08/20/2007 08:42 (103), 07/23/2019 16:05 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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