Bug 561436 (CVE-2009-4242) - CVE-2009-4242 HelixPlayer / RealPlayer: GIF file heap overflow
Summary: CVE-2009-4242 HelixPlayer / RealPlayer: GIF file heap overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-4242
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 16:33 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-02-09 11:07:08 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 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 1 Tomas Hoger 2010-02-03 16:34:30 UTC 
According to upstream, this should be:
http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/datatype-cvs/2008-September/008633.html
https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/datatype/image/gif/common/gifcodec.cpp?view=log#rev1.8
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.
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