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CVE-2005-2128
QUARTZ.DLL in Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 allows remote attackers to write a null byte to arbitrary memory via an AVI file with a…
Medium5.0EPSS 40.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
QUARTZ.DLL in Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 allows remote attackers to write a null byte to arbitrary memory via an AVI file with a crafted strn element with a modified length value.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 40.5% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- 17160 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1267 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- AD20051011a (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_EEYEx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#995220 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1149 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 18822 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- MS05-050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 17172 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 17509 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1434 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1424 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1231 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA05-284A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 15063 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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