CVE-2006-6601 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.43065.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:windows:media_player:10.00.00.4036:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Microsoft Subscribe	Windows Xp Subscribe
Windows Subscribe	Media Player Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-16T03:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:33:59.618Z

Reserved: 2006-12-15T05:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6601

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-12-15T22:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6601

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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