windows media Bonus Pack for windows XP includes:

• Plus! MP3 Audio Converter LE
• PowerToys for windows media player for windows XP
• windows media player for windows XP Visualizations
• windows media player Skins
• windows Movie Maker Creativity Kit

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.

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

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

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