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11/21/2001 Entry: "Flaw detected in Windows Media Player"

Flaw detected in Windows Media Player | Computerworld News & Features Story

A buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player software could let malicious attackers run code of their choice on a victim's system, Microsoft warned in an advisory today.

Microsoft is advising users to immediately apply a patch that takes care of not just the latest threat but also a slew of other vulnerabilties -- some of them still undisclosed -- that cumulatively pose a "critical" security risk for users.

The latest buffer-overrun vulnerability affects Windows Media Player 6.4, 7 and 7.1 and Windows Media Player for Windows XP.