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CVE-2006-0005

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 38.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 and 10, when used in browsers other than Internet Explorer and set as the default application to handle media files, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML with an EMBED element containing a long src attribute.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows-Nt: datacenter_server, datacenter_server-sp1, datacenter_server-sp2, datacenter_server-sp3, datacenter_server-sp4, xp-sp2 (+3)
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server: sp1, sp2, sp3, sp4
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: datacenter_edition, datacenter_edition_64-bit, enterprise_edition, enterprise_edition_64-bit, standard, standard_64-bit (+1)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000: none, sp1, sp2, sp3
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: datacenter_sp1, enterprise_sp1, standard_sp1, web_edition_sp1
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18852
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015628
• http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=393
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/692060
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16644
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0575
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-006
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24493
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1559
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18852
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015628

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