CVE-2006-6601

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4036 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a .MID (MIDI) file with a malformed header chunk without any track chunks, possibly involving (1) number of tracks of (2) time division fields that are set to 0.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
Windows Media Player: 10.00.00.4036

References

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-December/001182.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454505/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21612
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5039
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-December/001182.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454505/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21612
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5039

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