Bug 456855 (CVE-2007-5400) - CVE-2007-5400 RealPlayer: SWF Frame Handling Buffer Overflow
Summary: CVE-2007-5400 RealPlayer: SWF Frame Handling Buffer Overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-5400
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 456863 456864 456865 458689 458690 458691
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-28 08:04 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-22 22:57:58 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0812 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: RealPlayer security update 2008-09-17 14:43:26 UTC

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)
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