CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2009-1537
Unspecified vulnerability in 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted QuickTime media file, as exploited in the wild in May 2009, aka "DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability."
Severity
- EPSS
- 51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2026-05-20, due 2026-06-03
- CWE
- CWE-158
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:directx
- microsoft:windows_2000
- microsoft:windows_2003_server
- microsoft:windows_server_2003
- microsoft:windows_xp
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/05/28/microsoft-security-advisory-971778-vulnerability-in-microsoft-directshow-released.aspx
- http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/05/28/new-vulnerability-in-quicktime-parsing.aspx
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6481
- http://osvdb.org/54797
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35268