CVE-2006-0006: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 49.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bitmap processing routine in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 on Windows 2000 SP4, Media Player 9 on Windows 2000 SP4 and XP SP1, and Media Player 10 on XP SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted bitmap (.BMP) file that specifies a size of 0 but contains additional data.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows Media Player: version 7.1 only; version 9 only; version 10 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2006-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.