Windows Media Player PNG Processing (CVE-2004-1244)

Windows Media Player supports rendering of the Portable Network Graphics PNG images. The PNG specification defines a file format that provides a lossless, portable, image compression. Windows Media Player 9 contains a core library wmp.dll for handling the decoding of PNG image files. A...

CVE-2004-1244

CVE-2004-1244 is a PNG-processing remote-code-execution vulnerability in Windows Media Player 9 (WMP9) that occurs when parsing PNG images with excessively large width/height values. Affects WMP9 and related Windows components (e.g., Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger) and can allow arbitrary code ...