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<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>2008-09-04</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-09-04</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 "&gt;=media-video/realplayer-11.0.0.4028-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5400">CVE-2007-5400</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-08-19T23:23:04Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-08-19T23:23:18Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>
