Posts Tagged ‘multimedia library’

MIDI Files – Mid-Way to Infection

Feb

2012

Microsoft’s January patch MS12-004 addressed a few vulnerabilities in Windows Media components. One particular issue, CVE-2012-0003, can be exploited via Windows Media Player ActiveX, as it leverages a heap overflow occurring in ‘midiOutPlayNextPolyEvent’ function within the Windows Multimedia Library, winmm.dll. The bad guys didn’t waste time and this vulnerability is now exploited in the wild […]

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Malware Leveraging MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Found

Jan

2012

Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly) disclosed vulnerability, the MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0003).The said vulnerability is triggered when Windows Multimedia Library in Windows Media Player (WMP) fails to handle a specially crafted MIDI file, consequently allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.In the attack that we found, the infection […]

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