Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 15, 2006· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2006-6601

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.

Affected products

Windows/Media Player
cpe:2.3:a:windows:media_player:10.00.00.4036:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/Windows Xp
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5039nvdVendor Advisory
www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-December/001182.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454505/100/0/threadednvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/21612nvd

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