CVE-2003-0346

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
25.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: August 27, 2003 (8296 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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 Copyright string, or (2) a large number of tracks, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft directx

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.cert.org 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 docs.microsoft.com