CVE-2010-1879: Microsoft DirectX

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 20.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Quartz.dll for DirectShow; Windows Media Format Runtime 9, 9.5, and 11; Media Encoder 9; and the Asycfilt.dll COM component allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a media file with crafted compression data, aka "Media Decompression Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft DirectX: version 9.0 only; version 9.0a only; version 9.0b only; version 9.0c only
• Microsoft Windows Media Encoder: version 9 only
• Microsoft Windows Media Format Runtime: version 9 only; version 9.5 only; version 11 only

Published 2010-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.