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David Nino

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Virus warning hits Windows Media Player

Computer users have been warned to be on their guard when viewing images after the discovery of a vulnerability affecting the processing of PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files by popular applications including MSN Messenger and Windows Media Player.
The issue affects applications including Windows Media Player 9.0 (when running on Windows 2000, XP Service Pack 1 and Server 2003), Windows Messenger version 5.0 (standalone version that can be installed on all supported operating systems), and MSN Messenger 6.1 and 6.2.
The PNG format is used by these applications to view icons or any other kind of image. The flaw centres on an error in the processing of these types of files, and could allow arbitrary code to be run on vulnerable systems. A similar problem was discovered with Jpeg files in September last year.

posted by David Nino at 1:31 PM

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