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Credit:
The information has been provided by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-033/
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Vulnerable Systems:
* RealNetworks RealPlayer
User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists within the vidplin.dll module. A buffer is allocated according to the user supplied length value. User supplied data is then copied into the allocated buffer, without verifying length, allowing the data to be written past the bounds of the previously allocated buffer. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running RealPlayer.
Patch Availability:
RealNetworks has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/01272011_player/en/
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-4393
Disclosure Timeline:
2010-09-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2011-01-27 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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