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CVE-2009-1538

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2009-07-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The QuickTime Movie Parser Filter in quartz.dll in DirectShow in Microsoft DirectX 7.0 through 9.0c on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, and Windows Server 2003 SP2 performs updates to pointers without properly validating unspecified data values, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted QuickTime media file, aka "DirectX Pointer Validation Vulnerability."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows Server 2003Microsoft Windows 2000Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Directx

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References