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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: RHSA-2010:0981-01 Critical Helix Player Removal

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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Helix Player contains multiple security flaws and should no longer be used

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Helix Player is a media player.
Multiple security flaws were discovered in RealPlayer. Helix Player and RealPlayer share a common source code base; therefore, some of the flaws discovered in RealPlayer may also affect Helix Player. Some of these flaws could, when opening, viewing, or playing a malicious media file or stream, lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Helix Player. (CVE-2010-2997, CVE-2010-4375, CVE-2010-4378, CVE-2010-4379, CVE-2010-4382, CVE-2010-4383, CVE-2010-4384, CVE-2010-4385, CVE-2010-4386, CVE-2010-4392)
The Red Hat Security Response Team is unable to properly determine the impact or fix all of these issues in Helix Player, due to the source code for RealPlayer being unavailable.
Due to the security concerns this update removes the HelixPlayer package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Users wishing to continue to use Helix Player should download it directly from

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux media player Helix Player removal flaws

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2997 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4375 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4378 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4379 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4382 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4383 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4384 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4385 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4386 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4392 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
ppc: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.ppc.rpm
x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
Source:
i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:
Source:
i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:
Source:
i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0981-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0981.html
Issue date: 2010-12-14

Topic

Helix Player contains multiple security flaws and should no longer be used.This update removes the HelixPlayer package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux4.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux media player Helix Player removal flaws

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ppc, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

662772 - CVE-2010-4384 HelixPlayer multiple flaws (CVE-2010-2997, CVE-2010-4375, CVE-2010-4378, CVE-2010-4379, CVE-2010-4382, CVE-2010-4383, CVE-2010-4385, CVE-2010-4386, CVE-2010-4392)

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