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CVE-2009-1537

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
0.51207
Risk score
78.12
CISA KEV
Yes
PoC
No
Published
2009-05-29
Modified
2026-05-21
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2009-1533, GHSA-QVW7-MG6G-QM9M
Products
Microsoft:DirectX, n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
cisa.gov CVE-2009-1537
euvd EUVD-2009-1533

Description

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 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted QuickTime media file, as exploited in the wild in May 2009, aka "DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability."

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