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MS03-017: Windows Media Player Skin Download Overflow (817787)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 11595

Synopsis

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the media player.

Description

The remote host is using a version of Windows Media player that is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack through its handling of 'skins'.

An attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on this host with the privileges of the user running Windows Media Player.

To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to craft a specially malformed skin and send it to a user of this host, either directly by email or by sending a URL pointing to it.

Affected Software :

 - Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1
 - Microsoft Windows Media Player for Windows XP (Version 8.0)

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows Media Player.

See Also

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2003/ms03-017

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 11595

File Name: smb_nt_ms03-017.nasl

Version: 1.42

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 5/7/2003

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:windows_media_player

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0228

BID: 7517

CERT: 384932

MSFT: MS03-017

MSKB: 817787