Bug 561309 (CVE-2009-4257) - CVE-2009-4257 HelixPlayer / RealPlayer: SMIL getAtom heap buffer overflow
Summary: CVE-2009-4257 HelixPlayer / RealPlayer: SMIL getAtom heap buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-4257
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/det...
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Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2009-0375, CVE-2009-0376, CVE-2009-4241, CVE-2009-4244, CVE-2009-4246
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Reported: 2010-02-03 11:19 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-02-09 11:06:53 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0094 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: HelixPlayer security update 2010-02-09 10:14:30 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2010-02-03 11:19:47 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-4257 to the following vulnerability:

Heap-based buffer overflow in smlrender.dll 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 and 10.1, Linux RealPlayer 10
and 11.0.0, and Helix Player 10.x and 11.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via an SMIL file with crafted string lengths.

References:
http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/01192010_player/en/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-007/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509105/100/0/threaded
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/55798
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2010-02-03 11:21:36 UTC 
Upstream patch:
http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/datatype-cvs/2008-September/008678.html
https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/datatype/smil/common/smlpkt.cpp?view=log#rev1.12
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2010-02-09 10:15:49 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
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