Bug 561436 (CVE-2009-4242)

Summary: CVE-2009-4242 HelixPlayer / RealPlayer: GIF file heap overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: cmontgom, gauret, mjc, yoyzhang
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-4242
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Description Tomas Hoger 2010-02-03 16:33:24 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-4242 to the following vulnerability:

Heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetworks RealPlayer 10; RealPlayer 10.5
6.0.12.1040 through 6.0.12.1741; RealPlayer 11 11.0.0 through 11.0.4;
RealPlayer Enterprise; Mac RealPlayer 10, 10.1, and 11.0; Linux RealPlayer 10;
and Helix Player 10.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a
GIF file with crafted chunk sizes that trigger improper memory allocation.

References:
http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/01192010_player/en/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-006/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509096/100/0/threaded
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/55795

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2010-02-09 10:15:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2010:0094 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0094.html

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2010-02-10 08:45:45 UTC
Note that we've set the public= date to September 2008 because that was the date of the commit that mentioned this as a security issue, even though the advisories and disclosures did not happen until Jan 2010.