Windows Media Player plugin EMBED buffer overflow

Added: 02/16/2006 CVE: CVE-2006-0005 BID: 16644 OSVDB: 23132 Background The Windows Media Player plug-in allows the processing of embedded media from inside other applications, such as web browsers. Problem A buffer overflow in the Windows Media Player plug-in allows remote command execution when...

CVE-2006-0005

The CVE-2006-0005 vulnerability is a buffer overflow in the Windows Media Player plug-in (npdsplay.dll) used by non‑Microsoft browsers. When a user views HTML containing an EMBED tag with a long src attribute, it may allow remote code execution in the user’s context. Affected software includes Wi...