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Gentoo: GLSA-200709-05 Normal: RealPlayer Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
Gentoo GLSA 202310-04: VLC media player users need to update to address a security flaw that could lead to unauthorized system access.
RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing for execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: RealPlayer: Buffer overflow Date: September 14, 2007 Bugs: #183421 ID: 200709-05

Synopsis ======= RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing for 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 < 10.0.9 >= 10.0.9
========== A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the SmilTimeValue::parseWallClockValue() function in smlprstime.cpp when handling HH:mm:ss.f type time formats.
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