R-321: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player


 
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R-321: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player

A code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Media Player Parsing Skins and Decompressing Skins. The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.


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XMMS(1) 							 XMMS Manual Pages							   XMMS(1)

NAME
XMMS - an audio player for X. SYNOPSIS
xmms [-h] [--help] [-n <session>] [--session=<session>] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-v] [--version] [filename]... DESCRIPTION
XMMS is the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other kinds of media files. By default XMMS can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vor- bis, RIFF wav, most module formats, and a few other formats. XMMS can be extended through plugins to play a number of other audio and video formats. OPTIONS
XMMS accepts the following options: -h, --help Show summary of options. -n, --session Select XMMS session (Default: 0). -r, --rew Skip backwards in playlist. -p, --play Start playing current playlist. -u, --pause Pause current song. -s, --stop Stop current song. -t, --play-pause Pause if playing, play otherwise. -f, --fwd Skip forward in playlist. -e, --enqueue Don't clear the playlist. -m, --show-main-window Show the main window. -v, --version Print version number and exit. SKINS
XMMS supports WinAmp style skins. Skins may be stored in either archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) or unarchived format. XMMS looks for skinfiles in /usr/share/xmms/Skins, ~/.xmms/Skins, and locations specified by the SKINSDIR variable. KEYBINDINGS
Global keybindings for XMMS: z Previous song x Play c Pause v Stop b Next song l Play file j Jump to file r Toggle Repeat s Toggle Shuffle Shift + l Play directory Control + l Play location Control + p Preferences dialog Control + v Visualization plugin dialog Control + r Time remaining Control + a Always on top Control + w Winshade mode Control + d Doublesize mode Control + e Easy move Control + j Jump to time Control + z Start of list Control + n No Playlist Advance Control + 3 File info dialog Control + Alt + w Toggle Equalizer winshade mode Shift + Control + w Playlist winshade mode Alt + w Hide/show mainwindow Alt + e Hide/show playlistwindow Alt + g Hide/show Equalizer Alt + s Skin selecting window Main window specific: Arrow key up Volume up 2% Arrow key down Volume down 2% Arrow key right Skip 5 seconds forward in song Arrow key left Skip 5 seconds back in song Playlist window specific: Arrow key up Up one step in playlist Arrow key down Down one step in playlist Delete Remove selected songs from playlist Page Up Move one page up Page Down Move one page down Home First page in playlist End Last page in playlist Enter Play selected song Insert Add file dialog Shift + Insert Add directory dialog Alt + Insert Add url dialog Equalizer shade mode specific: Arrow key up Volume up 2% Arrow key down Volume down 2% Arrow key right Balance 4% to right Arrow key left Balance 4% to left FILES
~/.xmms/config Users xmms configuration. ~/.xmms/xmms.m3u Default playlist usually loaded on startup. ~/.xmms/gtkrc Users set of xmms-specific GTK config settings. Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here. ~/.xmms/menurc Users set of keybindings. ~/.xmms/Skins, /usr/share/xmms/Skins Default locations where XMMS should look for skinfiles. ~/.xmms/Plugins Location of user installed plugins. ENVIRONMENT
SKINSDIR Colon separated list of paths where XMMS should look for skinfiles. TARCMD Tar command supporting GNU tar style decompression. Used for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins. Default is tar. UNZIPCMD Command for decompressing zip files (skins). Default is unzip. OTHER INFO
The webpage for XMMS is at http://www.xmms.org. Here you can find info about XMMS, download the latest version, plugins, and skins. SEE ALSO
wmxmms(1), gnomexmms(1) Version 1.2.7 18 September 2001 XMMS(1)