ZDI-07-046: Microsoft Windows Media Player Skin Parsing Size Mismatch
Heap Overflow Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-046.html
August 14, 2007
-- CVE ID:
CVE-2007-3037
-- Affected Vendor:
Microsoft
-- Affected Products:
Windows Media Player 7.1
Windows Media Player 9
Windows Media Player 10
Windows Media Player 11
-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability since August 14, 2007 by Digital Vaccine protection
filter ID 5535. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:
http://www.tippingpoint.com
-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows Media Player. User
interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the
target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists during the parsing of malformed skin files
(WMZ). A size compressed / decompressed size mismatch can result in an
under allocated heap buffer which can be leveraged by an attacker to
eventually execute arbitrary code under the context of the current
user.
-- Vendor Response:
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More
details can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS07-047.mspx
-- Disclosure Timeline:
2007.03.19 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2007.08.14 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2007.08.14 - Coordinated public release of advisory
-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by Piotr Bania.
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