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Credit:
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-015
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Microsoft Windows XP
* Microsoft Windows Vista
User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must be coerced into decompressing a malicious video.
The specific flaw exists within the decompression of a specific type of video stream contained in an .AVI file. The application misuses a length field for an allocation causing the memory allocation to be too small to contain the subsequent data. During population of this buffer, the application will copy more data than allocated for leading to memory corruption with the potential for code execution.
Patch Availability:
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at the following Url:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-013.mspx
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-0250
Disclosure Timeline:
2009-01-15 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-02-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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