Laurent Gaffi, a researcher, reported on December 24 that Windows Media Player versions 9, 10, and 11 have a security vulnerability. Today, Microsoft dismissed the report and their researchers said that it is “reliability issue with no security risk to customers.”

“We’ve found no possibility for code execution in this issue,” said Christopher Budd who is the spokesman for the Microsoft Security Response Center.

He acknowledged that the flaw could crash Windows Media Player but the application can be restarted and would not affect the rest of the other softwares in a computer.

“This bug cannot be leveraged for arbitrary code execution,” say Jonathan Ness and Fermin Serna who are both with the Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense group.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD