GLSA 200507-04: RealPlayer: Heap overflow vulnerability

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Severity:	normal
Title:	RealPlayer: Heap overflow vulnerability
Date:	07/06/2005
Bugs:	#96923
ID:	200507-04

Synopsis

RealPlayer is vulnerable to a heap overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-video/realplayer	< 10.0.5	>= 10.0.5	All supported architectures

Description

RealPlayer is vulnerable to a heap overflow when opening RealMedia files which make use of RealText.

Impact

By enticing a user to play a specially crafted RealMedia file an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All RealPlayer users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/realplayer-10.0.5"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-04.xml

Concerns?

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