CVE-2006-6601

medium

Description

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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5039

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21612

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454505/100/0/threaded

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-December/001182.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-12-15

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.17145