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TITLE:
Windows Media Player Skin Handling Code Execution Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26433

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26433/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/1084/
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/1085/
Microsoft Windows Media Player 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/4208/
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.x
http://secunia.com/product/11280/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Windows Media Player, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the parsing of header information in skin files can be
exploited to execute arbitrary code on a user's system by tricking the
user into opening a malicious skin file.

2) An error in the decompression of skin files can be exploited to
execute arbitrary code on a user's system by tricking the user into
opening a malicious skin file.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Windows Media Player 7.1 for Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9f46b1fc-ee7b-437f-9492-67d003711021

Windows Media Player 9 for Windows 2000 SP4 / Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=bd4a6474-5fde-415e-840e-7d973cb71c95	

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=48f5a9d3-b859-4cb6-a68e-abde76a14782

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP Professional X64 Edition
(optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=949580be-cbb3-4271-8ca0-0ead7f2d8801

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8d9f1fdf-6d4c-44d4-9b5f-bdbe8ac28d7f

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
(optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2c04c7f2-728e-43bd-8574-26e411fcd129

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=a690d042-1137-4aaf-bd0e-565ea04d1f2b

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP Professional X64 Edition
(optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=bdc89f34-c1ff-46ab-b52d-c02d51c5c373

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=80e5167c-4f75-4ce3-8b15-2f50958deec8

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=bf30b714-d6e7-47ea-b79e-84c18370a661

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Piotr Bania and ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS07-047 (KB936782):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-047.mspx

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