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Re: Media Player Classic .MPA Div-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability
From: "Michal Bucko (hackpl)" <sapheal () hack pl>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:53:34 +0200
Dear 3APA3A, In my opinion, You are only partially right. It is true that not all of the bugs are security-related ones. It is, however, untrue that the problem iself is only limited to media file playing refusal as it leads to a crash. I don't see much security impact, too. According to SecurityFocus (BID: 23991), "[..] Media Player Classic is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing a malformed MPA file. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.[..]" The issue is definetely not a conversation piece, I agree ;-) Michal----- Original Message ----- From: "3APA3A" <3APA3A () SECURITY NNOV RU>
To: "Michal Bucko (hackpl)" <sapheal () hack pl> Cc: <bugtraq () securityfocus com> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:31 PMSubject: Re: Media Player Classic .MPA Div-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability
Dear Michal Bucko (hackpl), DoS against e.g. Internet Explorer may be treated as a vulnerability, because all windows are closed and user can loose some useful information. This is very low impact, but it is. In this case I see no impact at all. Resource consumption during dump file creation? Universal DoS against any media player: 1. Create new file in notepad 2. Type "Na!" 3. Save file as exploit.mp3 4. Open file in any media player. 5. Media player fails to play. Is it vulnerability? Guys, not any application bug is security one.--Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 1:49:54 AM, you wrote to bugtraq () securityfocus com:MBh> Media Player Classic fails to handle MPA-extension media files. When emptyMBh> file provided Media Player MBh> Classic fails to properly parse MPA file format. MBh> 00634DD1 |. 8B4C24 18 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+18] MBh> 00634DD5 |. 8B4424 14 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+14] MBh> 00634DD9 |. 33D2 XOR EDX,EDX MBh> 00634DDB |. F7F1 DIV ECX MBh> ECX 00000000 -- ~/ZARAZA http://securityvulns.com/
Current thread:
- Media Player Classic .MPA Div-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability Michal Bucko (hackpl) (May 15)
- Re: Media Player Classic .MPA Div-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability 3APA3A (May 16)
- Re: Media Player Classic .MPA Div-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability Michal Bucko (hackpl) (May 16)
- Re: Media Player Classic .MPA Div-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability 3APA3A (May 16)