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RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : RealPlayer (RHSA-2008:0812)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40726

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

RealPlayer 10.0.9 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, 4 Extras, and 5 Supplementary, contains a security flaw and should not be used.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

[Updated 17 September 2008] We have updated this erratum to include packages which remove RealPlayer from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, 4 Extras and 5 Supplementary.

RealPlayer is a media player that provides media playback locally and via streaming.

RealPlayer 10.0.9 is vulnerable to a critical security flaw and should no longer be used. A remote attacker could leverage this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user running RealPlayer. (CVE-2007-5400)

This issue is addressed in RealPlayer 11. Red Hat is unable to ship RealPlayer 11 due to additional proprietary codecs included in that version. Therefore, users who wish to continue to use RealPlayer should get an update directly from www.real.com.

This update removes the RealPlayer 10.0.9 packages due to their known security vulnerabilities.

Solution

Update the affected RealPlayer-uninstall and / or realplayer-uninstall packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-5400

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0812

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40726

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0812.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:realplayer-uninstall, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5400

BID: 30370

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2008:0812