CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
98.3%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:517
HelixPlayer is a media player.
A buffer overflow bug was found in the way HelixPlayer processes SMIL files.
An attacker could create a specially crafted SMIL file, which when combined
with a malicious web server, could execute arbitrary code when opened by a
user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2005-1766 to this issue.
All users of HelixPlayer are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which contains HelixPlayer version 10.0.5 and is not vulnerable to this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-June/074061.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-June/074062.html
Affected packages:
HelixPlayer
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:517
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 4 | i386 | helixplayer | < 1.0.5-0.EL4.1 | HelixPlayer-1.0.5-0.EL4.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | helixplayer | < 1.0.5-0.EL4.1 | HelixPlayer-1.0.5-0.EL4.1.i386.rpm |