Bug 456855 (CVE-2007-5400)

Summary: CVE-2007-5400 RealPlayer: SWF Frame Handling Buffer Overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bnocera, kreilly, tao
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Bug Depends On: 456863, 456864, 456865, 458689, 458690, 458691    
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-28 08:04:43 UTC 
Dyon Balding of the Secunia Research discovered a security issue affecting Real
Networks' RealPlayer:

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error within the handling
of frames in Shockwave Flash (SWF) files and can be exploited to cause
a heap-based buffer overflow.

References:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-93/advisory/
http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/07252008_player/en/

According to the upstream advisory, this issue affects Linux RealPlayer 10, and
does not affect Linux RealPlayer 11 and Helix Player 10.* and 11.*.
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2010-12-22 22:57:58 UTC 
This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 Extras (RHSA-2008:0812)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 Extras (RHSA-2008:0812)