FIX: The Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codecs leak trace amounts of memory during the encoding and decoding process

The Microsoft Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codecs leak trace amounts of memory during the encoding and decoding process.

This problem occurs because memory is not correctly freed.

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows Server 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix information

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the WindowsMedia10-KB917821-x86-INTL.exe package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/d/7/2d7856ed-bbbc-4934-bdb4-1c070a4d1544/windowsmedia10-kb917821-x86-intl.exe)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, x86 Edition

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the WindowsServer2003-KB917821-x86-ENU.exe package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/d/7/2d7856ed-bbbc-4934-bdb4-1c070a4d1544/windowsserver2003-kb917821-x86-enu.exe)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, x64 Edition

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB917821-x64-ENU.exe package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/d/7/2d7856ed-bbbc-4934-bdb4-1c070a4d1544/windowsserver2003.windowsxp-kb917821-x64-enu.exe)

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.