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 .MI…

published 2006-12-15 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-6584

cvss: 4.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 18.1%; EPSS 18.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 2; Exploit-DB

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.

Timeline

2006-12-15 First public exploit (EDB-29285)
2006-12-15 Published

Exploit prediction

18.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-29285 Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4/10.0 - MID Malformed Header Chunk Denial of Service dos, 2006-12-15
EDB-2935 Microsoft Windows Media Player 9/10 - '.mid' Denial of Service dos, 2006-12-15

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

vupen.com /english/advisories/2006/5039
vdb-entry, vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /archive/1/454505/100/0/threaded
mailing-list
attrition.org /pipermail/vim/2006-December/001182.html
mailing-list
securityfocus.com /bid/21612
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2006-6601
NVD CVE-2006-6601

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Summary