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>> RealPlayer Unspecified Data Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : RealPlayer Unspecified Data Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0016
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0098
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-01-03
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A vulnerability has been identified in RealPlayer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an unspecified buffer overflow error when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Affected Products
RealPlayer version 11 build 6.0.14.748 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0016
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2008-January/004811.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Evgeny Legerov.
ChangeLog
2008-01-03 : Initial release
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