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RealPlayer: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Description

### Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. ### Description RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing malicious SWF files. ### Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application. ### Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. ### Resolution All RealPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/realplayer-10.0.7"


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Gentoo any media-video/realplayer 10.0.7

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