Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0005 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Buffer overflow in the plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 and 10, when used in browsers other than Internet Explorer and set as the default application to handle media files, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML with an EMBED element containing a long src attribute.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
description MS Windows Media Player 10 Plugin Overflow Exploit (MS06-006). CVE-2006-0005. Remote exploit for windows platform id EDB-ID:1505 last seen 2016-01-31 modified 2006-02-17 published 2006-02-17 reporter Matthew Murphy source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/1505/ title Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 - Plugin Overflow Exploit MS06-006 description MS Windows Media Player Plugin Overflow Exploit (MS06-006)(3). CVE-2006-0005. Remote exploit for windows platform id EDB-ID:1520 last seen 2016-01-31 modified 2006-02-22 published 2006-02-22 reporter Matthew Murphy source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/1520/ title Microsoft Windows Media Player - Plugin Overflow Exploit MS06-006 3 description MS Windows Media Player 9 Plugin Overflow Exploit (MS06-006) (meta). CVE-2006-0005. Remote exploit for windows platform id EDB-ID:1504 last seen 2016-01-31 modified 2006-02-17 published 2006-02-17 reporter H D Moore source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/1504/ title Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 - Plugin Overflow Exploit MS06-006 meta
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows : Microsoft Bulletins |
| NASL id | SMB_NT_MS06-006.NASL |
| description | The remote host is running the Windows Media Player plug-in. There is a vulnerability in the remote version of this software that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted media file with a rogue EMBED element and have a user on the affected host open it with the plug-in. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 20906 |
| published | 2006-02-14 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20906 |
| title | MS06-006: Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Plug-in Could Allow Remote Code Execution (911564) |
Oval
| accepted | 2014-06-30T04:05:55.593-04:00 | ||||||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||
| contributors |
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| description | Buffer overflow in the plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 and 10, when used in browsers other than Internet Explorer and set as the default application to handle media files, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML with an EMBED element containing a long src attribute. | ||||||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1559 | ||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||
| submitted | 2006-02-17T07:36:00.000-04:00 | ||||||||||||
| title | Windows Media Player Plug-in EMBED Vulnerability | ||||||||||||
| version | 10 |
Saint
| bid | 16644 |
| description | Windows Media Player plugin EMBED buffer overflow |
| id | win_patch_wmpplugin |
| osvdb | 23132 |
| title | wmp_plugin_embed |
| type | client |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18852
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015628
- http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=393
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/692060
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16644
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-045A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0575
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-006
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24493
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1559