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TITLE:
RealNetworks RealPlayer SWF Frame Handling Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27620

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27620/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
RealPlayer 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/2968/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in RealPlayer, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

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.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version RealPlayer 10.5. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability is fixed in an upcoming release.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-93/

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