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CVE-2006-6601
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…
Medium4.3EPSS 18.1%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 18.1% · top 2.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- 20061215 Windows Media MID File Denial Of Service Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2006-5039 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20061215 Media .MID file DoS extra info (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VIMx_transferred
- 21612 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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