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One of the streaming media formats supported by windows media player is Advanced Streaming Format (ASF). A security vulnerability occurs in windows media player 6.4 because the code that processes ASF files contains an unchecked buffer.

By creating a specially malformed ASF file and inducing a user to play it, an attacker could overrun the buffer, with either of two results: in the simplest case, windows media player 6.4 would fail; in the more complex case, code chosen by the attacker could be made to run on the user�s computer, with the privileges of the user. The scope of this vulnerability is rather limited. It affects only windows media player 6.4, and can only be exploited by the user opening and deliberately playing an ASF file. There is no capability to exploit this vulnerability via email or a web page.

However, the patch eliminates additional vulnerabilities. Specifically, it eliminates all known vulnerabilities affecting windows media player 6.4 � discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletins MS00-090, MS01-029, and MS01-042 � as well as some additional variants of these vulnerabilities that were discovered internally by Microsoft. Some of these vulnerabilities could be exploited via email or a web page. In addition, some affect components of windows media player 6.4 that, for purposes of backward compatibility, ship with windows media player 7, and 7.1. We therefore recommend that customers running any of these versions of windows media player apply the patch to ensure that they are fully protected against all known vulnerabilities.

windows media player for windows XP includes components of windows media player 6.4, but they are not affected by the ASF buffer overrun or by any of the other vulnerabilities discussed in the security bulletins listed above. However, the version 6.4 components that ship with windows media player for windows XP are affected by some of the newly discovered variants of these vulnerabilities. Rather than installing this patch, however, we recommend that customers install the 25 October 2001 Critical Update for windows XP.

Summary
Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft� windows Media� player 6.4, 7.1 or windows media player for windows XP.

Impact of vulnerability: Three new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could be used to run code of attackers choice.

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

Recommendation: Customers running affected products should apply the patch immediately.

Affected Software:

Microsoft windows media player 6.4
Microsoft windows media player 7.1
Microsoft windows media player for windows XP

A windows media player plug-in that reads CD-Text

WMPCDText is a plug-in for windows media player that adds support for reading CD-Text.

CD-Text is an extension of the audio CD-standard that allows you to store additional information on an audio CD, such as album name, album artist and track info.

Many audio players like Winamp and RealPlayer can read CD-Text but as you know windows media player was never able to support it.Until now, because WMPCDText will read CD-Text directly from within windows media Player.

There is an option to automatically read CD-Text from unknown audio CDs. Alternatively, you can also right-click on a CD-track in the Now Playing-pane while the CD is playing, and click "Read CD-Text".

WMPCDText especially comes in handy when using windows media player for playing home-made audio CDs. Before WMPCDText, you would have to insert all the track information of such a CD manually into windows media Player.

Now, just make sure that the CD-Text information is burned onto the CD, play the burned CD with windows media Player, and WMPCDText will automatically read the track information from the CD itself and insert it into the media Library.

Requirements:

· windows media player 10 or 11

A music visualization for windows media player with pulsing red, white and blue American flag

An American flag visualization for windows media Player. It is compatible with almost anything the plays on windows media player including MP3s, windows media Audio, Audio CDs, and Internet Radio.

To get the best results, your display should be set for 800x600 resolution when viewing this visualization full-screen.

Launch the windows media player with the file that you pass it as a parameter

The windows media player Launcher application was designed to be a small tool to launch the windows media player with the file that you pass it as a parameter.

This is useful if you want to do an autoplay CD-ROM with any media file (AVI, WAV, ...) that the media player can play.

Using this program has two advantages over running the media player directly:
· The program will search for the location of media Player. This allows you to to use an autoplay CD-ROM in other computer although the media player be installed in a different location.

· This application launch the media player in fullscreen mode, and when the play of the media file is over, the media player is closed.

Requirements:

· windows media player installed

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Haihaisoft Universal player is a powerful media player which supports almost all popular digital media formats and can also play digital media files protected by DRM-X platform.

Haihaisoft Universal player is equivalent to:

windows media player
Real player
Adobe Flash player
Apple QuickTime player
PowerDVD
Flash Video (FLV) player
Internet Explorer

With Haihaisoft Universal player embedded Internet Explorer, you can easily play media content and surf on the internet together.

Haihaisoft Universal player can play WMV(Windows media Video), WMA(Windows media Audio), ASF, WMS, DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, RMVB, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, FLV, SWF, MP3, AMR, M4A, ACC, OGG, MIDI, GIF and JPEG file format.

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Haihaisoft Media-DRM (digital rights management) is a powerful service platform based-on windows media Technology and web. You can download Media-DRM packager to encrypt content, and manage rights and profiles on Media-DRM.com. Media-DRM makes it easy to protect and securely deliver content by subscription or individual request for playback on a computer, or portable device, such as mobile, PDA, and mp3 player.

From March 2004, Haihaisoft provide media DRM service, and became Microsoft windows media Service Provider. Now Haihaisoft Media-DRM service is widely used by content providers and is already delivered over 55 million licenses.

To get started with Media-DRM, simply visit www.media-drm.com. Youll be guided through a simple sign-up process, and install Media-DRM packager to encrypt your content. With simple configuration in your Media-DRM Account, you can securely deliver your content by anyway, starting maximize the value of your content!

Media-DRM Packager is a windows application that encrypts media files. Media-DRM needs internet connection, and for security reasons that you need to login Media-DRM packager to encrypt media files. Media-DRM packager reads all the DRM license profiles and rights settings you defined in Media-DRM account. You can batch create new license profiles and encrypt media files with Media-DRM packager.

MediaLooks QuickTime Plugin is a free DirectShow filter that enables QuickTime media playback in windows media Player, Winamp, BS.Player, media player Classic, KM player and Zoom Player. The original QuickTime player is required.

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windows media Format 11 Runtime is required to decode/encode windows media Video (WMV, WM) and windows media Audio (WMA) files without installing windows media player 11.