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TITLE:
RealPlayer AVI Header Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43098

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-01-29

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in RealPlayer, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
vidplin.dll module while parsing the AVI header and can be exploited
to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into
opening a malicious AVI file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 14.0.1 and prior, SP 1.1.5
and prior, and 11.1 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 14.0.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian via ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RealNetworks:
http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/01272011_player/en/

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-033/

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