Microsoft DirectX vulnerabilities

13 CVEs affecting Microsoft DirectX, 1 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2012-1537, published 2012-12-12.

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CVE-2009-1537: Microsoft DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability, published 2009-05-29. High severity, CVSS 8.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2026-05-20. EPSS: 51.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…
CVE-2007-3901, published 2007-12-12. High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 45.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Stack-based buffer overflow in the DirectShow Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) parser in quartz.dll for Microsoft DirectX 7.0 through 10.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…
CVE-2008-1444, published 2008-06-12. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 39.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectX 7.0 and 8.1 on Windows 2000 SP4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) file with…
CVE-2007-3895, published 2007-12-12. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 36.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Buffer overflow in Microsoft DirectShow in Microsoft DirectX 7.0 through 10.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) WAV or (2) AVI file.
CVE-2003-0346, published 2003-08-27. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 32.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Multiple integer overflows in a Microsoft Windows DirectX MIDI library (QUARTZ.DLL) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a MIDI (.mid) file with (1) large length for a Text or…
CVE-2009-0084, published 2009-04-15. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 31.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Use-after-free vulnerability in DirectShow in Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and 9.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an MJPEG file or video stream with a malformed Huffman table, which…
CVE-2008-0011, published 2008-06-12. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 31.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Microsoft DirectX 8.1 through 9.0c, and DirectX on Microsoft XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008, does not properly perform MJPEG error checking, which allows…
CVE-2009-1538, published 2009-07-15. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 26.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…
CVE-2004-0202, published 2004-08-06. Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 26.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. IDirectPlay4 Application Programming Interface (API) of Microsoft DirectPlay 7.0a thru 9.0b, as used in Windows Server 2003 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
CVE-2009-1539, published 2009-07-15. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 25.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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 does not properly validate…

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CVE-2012-1537, published 2012-12-12. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 22.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Heap-based buffer overflow in DirectPlay in DirectX 9.0 through 11.1 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows…
CVE-2010-1880, published 2010-06-08. High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 21.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Unspecified vulnerability in Quartz.dll for DirectShow on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via…
CVE-2010-1879, published 2010-06-08. 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…