CVE-2008-4927: Microsoft Windows Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9.0 through 11 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed (1) MIDI or (2) DAT file, related to "MThd Header Parsing." NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Media Player: version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only

Published 2008-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.