CVE-2004-1623

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The WAV file property handler in Windows XP SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop in Explorer) via a WAV file with an invalid file header whose fmt chunk length is set to 0xFFFFFFFF.

The WAV file property handler in Windows XP SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop in Explorer) via a WAV file with an invalid file header whose fmt chunk length is set to 0xFFFFFFFF.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 20 years ago

2004-10-22 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Gold

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 embedded

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 Home Edition

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 media_center

References

20041021 [HV-LOW] Unsafe WAV header handling can cause DoS on Windows

1011880

http://www.hexview.com/docs/20041021-1.txt

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

11053

11503

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

windowsxp-explorer-wav-dos(17864)

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