CVE-2007-3037

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 21.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

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."

Affected products

Microsoft Corporation Windows Media Player: 7.1, 9, 10, 11

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/26433
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018565
http://www.osvdb.org/36385
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476533/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25307
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-226A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2871
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-046.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-047
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2207
http://secunia.com/advisories/26433
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018565

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