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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200809-03">
+ <title>RealPlayer: Buffer overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing for the execution of
+ arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">realplayer</product>
+ <announced>September 04, 2008</announced>
+ <revised>September 04, 2008: 01</revised>
+ <bug>232997</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-video/realplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">11.0.0.4028-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">11.0.0.4028-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple
+ multimedia file formats.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Dyon Balding of Secunia Research reported an unspecified heap-based
+ buffer overflow in the Shockwave Flash (SWF) frame handling.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF (Shockwave Flash)
+ file, a remote attacker could be able to execute arbitrary code with
+ the privileges of the user running the application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All RealPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/realplayer-11.0.0.4028-r1&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5400">CVE-2007-5400</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:23:04 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:23:18 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>