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CVE-2006-0005

N/A

Published: February 14, 2006 at 07:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM UTC

7 products affected across 1 vendorWindows XpWindows Server 2003Windows 2000

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 38%

Description

Buffer overflow in the plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 and 10, when used in browsers other than Internet Explorer and set as the default application to handle media files, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML with an EMBED element containing a long src attribute.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Windows 2000 · Microsoft

95%

sp1sp2sp3sp4

Windows 2000 Advanced Server · Microsoft

95%

sp1 sp2 sp3 sp4

Windows 2003 Server · Microsoft

95%

datacenter_edition datacenter_edition_64-bit enterprise_edition enterprise_edition_64-bit standard standard_64-bit web_edition

Windows Nt · Microsoft

95%

datacenter_server datacenter_server sp1 datacenter_server sp2 datacenter_server sp3 datacenter_server sp4 xp sp2 xp_tablet_pc xp_tablet_pc sp1 xp_tablet_pc sp2

Windows Server 2000 · Microsoft

95%

nonesp1 sp2 sp3

Windows Server 2003 · Microsoft

95%

datacenter_sp1 enterprise_sp1 standard_sp1 web_edition_sp1

Windows Xp · Microsoft

95%

sp1sp2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (10)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/18852

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015628

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE

Source: [email protected]

http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=393

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/692060

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16644

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Source: [email protected]

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0575

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MS

Source: [email protected]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-006

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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