Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (974112)
Informations
Name MS09-052 First vendor Publication 2009-10-13
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2010-01-12
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision 1.2

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Revision Note: V1.2 (January 12, 2010): Corrected registry keys for Windows Media Player 6.4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. This is an informational update only.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Media Player. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted ASF file is played using Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-052.mspx

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6184
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6184
Title: WMP Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted ASF file or (2) crafted streaming content, aka "WMP Heap Overflow Vulnerability."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-2527
Version: 1
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Windows Media Player
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-14 Name : Microsoft Windows Media Player ASF Heap Overflow Vulnerability (974112)
File : nvt/secpod_ms09-052.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
58843 Microsoft Windows Media Player ASF Handling Overflow

A remote overflow exists in Microsoft Windows Media Player. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the processing of 'ASF' file types resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause a heap-based buffer overflow by creating a specially crafted ASF file resulting in a loss of integrity.

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2009-10-15 IAVM : 2009-A-0092 - Microsoft Windows Media Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0021743
2009-10-15 IAVM : 2009-A-0091 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Media Runtime
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0021744

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Player ASF marker object parsing buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 9643 - Revision : 10 - Type : OS-WINDOWS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Player ASF codec list object parsing buffer overflow ...
RuleID : 9642 - Revision : 10 - Type : OS-WINDOWS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Player ASF simple index object parsing buffer overflo...
RuleID : 9641 - Revision : 10 - Type : OS-WINDOWS
2014-01-10 Windows Media Player ASF marker object memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 16156 - Revision : 7 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-10-13 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Windows Media Player.
File : smb_nt_ms09-052.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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2014-02-17 11:46:21
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-19 21:30:22
  • Multiple Updates
2013-11-11 12:41:13
  • Multiple Updates