CVE-2010-1879

critical

Published 2010-06-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.3

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Quartz.dll for DirectShow; Windows Media Format Runtime 9, 9.5, and 11; Media Encoder 9; and the Asycfilt.dll COM component allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a media file with crafted compression data, aka "Media Decompression Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	directx	`9.0`
microsoft	directx	`9.0a`
microsoft	directx	`9.0b`
microsoft	directx	`9.0c`
microsoft	windows_media_format_runtime	`9`
microsoft	windows_media_format_runtime	`9.5`
microsoft	windows_media_format_runtime	`11`
microsoft	windows_media_encoder	`9`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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