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RHEL 3 / 4 : RealPlayer (RHSA-2006:0257)

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An updated RealPlayer package that fixes a buffer overflow bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras 3 and 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. RealPlayer is a media player that provides media playback locally and via streaming. A buffer overflow bug was discovered in the way RealPlayer processes Flash Media (.swf) files. It is possible for a malformed Flash Media file to execute arbitrary code as the user running RealPlayer. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2006-0323 to this issue. All users of RealPlayer are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains RealPlayer version 10.0.7 and is not vulnerable to this issue.


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