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Gentoo: GLSA-200603-24 Critical: RealPlayer Buffer Overflow Attack

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 discusses a vulnerability in VLC Media Player that could lead to unauthorized access to system resources.
RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-24 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: RealPlayer: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: March 26, 2006 Bugs: #127352 ID: 200603-24

Synopsis ======= RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/realplayer < 10.0.7 >= 10.0.7
========== RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing malicious SWF files.
Impact ===== By enticing a user to open a specially crafte...

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